A Failure in the Discrimination of Aggressive Behavior of Undifferentiated Schizophrenics with the Hand Test
- 1 June 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Projective Techniques and Personality Assessment
- Vol. 30 (3) , 275-279
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0091651x.1966.10120309
Abstract
The study represents an attempt to cross-validate an American experiment in the discrimination of aggressive from nonaggressive behavior on the basis of the Acting Out Score and the Withdrawal Score of the Hand Test. The subjects were 66 undifferentiated schizophrenics in an English state mental hospital. They were rated as aggressive (A) or nonaggressive (NA) according to certain definite criteria. The distribution of numbers, sexes, and ages approximated closely to those in the earlier study. Whereas the results of the American experiment successfully discriminated between aggressive and nonaggressive schizophrenics, the results of the present study were notably similar for both A and NA groups.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- The hand test: A new projective test with special reference to the prediction of overt aggressive behavior.Published by American Psychological Association (APA) ,1962