音TATのこころみ

音TATの妥当性について

抄録

To appraise personality of the blind, the projectiveuse of the sound stimuli was attempted. It was the acoustic apperception test.
In order to consolidate its validity from various angles, the acoustic TAT of the Kagawa University applied to those who are of the normal sight, and the personality was subjected to the thorough comparative study, by means of other tests.
Tests applied and contents are as follows:
(1) The Acoustic TAT
It consists of ten scenes of livelihood sounds, tape-recorded, one minute each in length.
In application, the subjects were given the stimulative scene in turn by tape-ercorder and were asked to write down the story.
Example 1; The gong of departure-soundedbustling and hustling-bell-Auld Lang Syne overlapped. Male voice,“Hang it!” “Don't bother! All finished” in young woman's voice-A whistle, music, feding-out.
(2) TAT (Waseda University Edition)
(3) Rorschach Test(original edition)
(4) Yatabe-Guilford Personality Test
(5) Rosenzweig P-F Test(Sumida-Hayashi)
(6) Color Symbolic Test (Obonai-Matsuoka)
(7) Sentence Completion Test (Psychopathic Research Institute)
(8) Diagnostic Propensity Test(Tanaka Educational Research Institute)
Personality tested by the acoustic TAT has proved to have various tendencies in common with the other aforesaid tests. Application of the acoustic TAT seems to be promissing.