The features of the Star-Wave Test as a projective method

―The Report from Re-test to be taken after eleven years since the first administration―

Abstract

　　This study attempts to determine the further features of the Star-Wave Test as a projective method, by investigating the test results from the second administration which had been taken after 11 years of the first administration. It provided us with some ideas that the Star-Wave Test is likely to describe people’s mental states which may easily change in the very short term, and also the long-lasting states which we call “the personality” in general. Furthermore, by comparing the results of the Star-Wave Test and that of the Rorschach inkblot test, it was discovered that both projective methods give the similar descriptions about some change in subjects’ character in the long term. It can be explained that the Star-Wave Test is also likely to detect the personality change, according to the clinical validity of the Rorschach inkblot test.