Rorschach Comprehensive System Data From a Sample of 211 Nonpatient Children in Brazil

Abstract

This study provides Rorschach Comprehensive System normative data for Brazilian boys and girls drawn from public and private schools. Initially, the Child Behavior Checklist was administered to parents to assess the child's social competence and to screen out behavioral disturbances. Afterward, the Raven's Color Progressive Matrices was administered to exclude children with low intellectual development. Finally, the Rorschach Comprehensive System was administered to the selected 211 children who were distributed in 4 subgroups: 7-year-olds (n = 50), 8-year-olds (n = 53), 9-year-olds (n = 52), and 10-year-olds (n = 56). Interrater reliability statistics were calculated, including percentage of agreement and iota. Descriptive statistics of all variables of the Comprehensive System for each subgroup are presented and contrasted with results from other relevant comparison samples.

Acknowledgments

This research was sponsored by Brazil's Ministry of Education and the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). We express our appreciation to Regina Sonia Gattas Fernandes do Nascimento for her help in the interscorer agreement procedures; to Daniela Arroyo Esquivel, Juliana de Cassia Leonel, Luciana Aparecida Sobirai Diaz, and Thaís Cristina Marques for their work as external judges; and to Lucas de Francisco Carvalho for the statistical analysis.

Notes

The first author taught psychological assessment with a master's degree and had 5 years of experience using the Rorschach with the Klopfer System before starting work on this study. Before completing this research (a doctoral thesis), the author took a 1-year intensive training program in the Rorschach Comprehensive System.