Abstract
Some Rorschach workers have hypothesized positive correlation between the number of various movement responses on the Rorschach and intelligence, but their validity has not been firmly established.
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the correlations between some scores as given in The Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale and various movement responses on the Rorschach (human movement, animal movement and inanimate movement). I. Method: The subjects of this investigation included one hundred male juvenile dilinquents detained at the Kanazawa Juvenile Classification Center. The mean age of the subjects was18: 2. All 100 subjects were administered the Rorschach and the Wechsler-Bellevue tests. The Rorschach were scored by Klopfer system, but M and FM were sub-classified as follows: Human movement
Mn...Human beings seen in action
Mp...Human beings seen in any animate posture
Ma...Human-like movement in animals
Mo...Human movement not included in the
above three types
Animal movement
FMa...Animals in movement of an animal-like nature
FMp...Animals in animate posture
FMo...Animal movement not included in the above two types
II. Results: Means and standard deviations of the Rorschach variables and the Wechsler-Bellevue scale scores are presented in Table 1. The Pearson coefficients between the Rorschach variables and the Wechsler Bellevue scores are given in
Table 2.
1. Human movement
It is seen that human movement (M) correlate with each IQ on the Wechsler-Bellevue Verbal, Performance and Full Scales at the. 02 level of significance or the above. M correlates. 275 with W-B Full Scale IQ, and the eta is. 362, which indicates statistically no significant difference. Therefore, the regression of M on intelligence is not significantly curviliniar for this group. An examination of the sub-test correlations reveals that M correlates-highest with Similarities (. 376), but insignificantly with Object Assembly (. 082). In Table 3 there are given the bi-serial correlations between three types of M and IQ. Ma shows the highest correlation with the Full Scale IQ (. 471), but Mp and Ma correlate insignificantly with the Full Scale IQ (. 073,. 286). Popular M unelaborated on Card III yields an rbis of. 463 with Full Scale IQ. This coefficient is significantly greater than zero at the. 01 level of confidence.
2. Animal movement
Animal movement (FM), on the other hand, shows nocorrelation with W-B IQ as presented in Table 2. FMa and FMp, similarly, correlate insignificantly with the W-B Full Scale IQ, but FMp shows a rather negative correlation with the Performance Scale IQ at the5% level, which was not expected.
3. Inanimate movement
Inanimate movement (m) appears in 18 cases of this group. But only 3 cases of 18 subjects is above 110 on Full Scale IQ. The bi-serial coefficient of in: Full Scale IQ is. 092, yet rbta of m: Performance Scale IQ is. 400. The latter coefficient is significantly greater than zero at the 1% level of confidence.
