The article, Predicting Suicide Using the Rorschach Inkblot Test, describes a study that was completed to help prove that there could be a scale created that predicts suicides. The study used the Rorschach inkblot test to do this. The suicide prediction categories that were used within the study were to count characteristics, based on the case history, and a combination of both. Through studies and reviews it was evident that Rorschach was the best possible test to predict suicide. The study was made up of 375 people. The subjects were divided into 3 different groups. Each group consisted of 125 people. The three groups were divided by suicide effectors, suicide attempters, and psychiatric control. Every person in the study was chosen based
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They used the 44 scored variates from the Piotrowski Rorschach test. The categories for the test were based on content. The content areas listed are the ones focused on during the testing: animal, animal detail, human, human detail, anatomy, nature, map, object, fire, smoke, clouds, blood, art/architecture, clothing, botany, food, sex shock, shading shock, and color shock ( ). All variables were treated as though they were independent variables. Changes were eventually made to allow for coding of the data. Once this occurred they had to change the process for coding data of the computer program. The data was used to show to show the least amount of variables possible for being successful at predicting suicide. The study was completed by testing all subjects and the 375 subjects had been scored blind. There was a random table of numbers used to choose the 25 subjects that would be used for cross-validation. From the 25 they received results based on age and sex-differences. There was also a group of 29 subjects chosen randomly because they were used for testing validity. The results from the study provided the necessary information about the 44 variables within The Piotrowski Rorschach test. A comparison of all the groups was completed to determine how different they were from each other. The groups were tested by multivariate tests of difference between the groups. The findings of the test were proven to be significant. There was a difference of proportions test used to make sure that all subjects were classified based on step 6 of the chart provided within the information for the
They used the 44 scored variates from the Piotrowski Rorschach test. The categories for the test were based on content. The content areas listed are the ones focused on during the testing: animal, animal detail, human, human detail, anatomy, nature, map, object, fire, smoke, clouds, blood, art/architecture, clothing, botany, food, sex shock, shading shock, and color shock ( ). All variables were treated as though they were independent variables. Changes were eventually made to allow for coding of the data. Once this occurred they had to change the process for coding data of the computer program. The data was used to show to show the least amount of variables possible for being successful at predicting suicide. The study was completed by testing all subjects and the 375 subjects had been scored blind. There was a random table of numbers used to choose the 25 subjects that would be used for cross-validation. From the 25 they received results based on age and sex-differences. There was also a group of 29 subjects chosen randomly because they were used for testing validity. The results from the study provided the necessary information about the 44 variables within The Piotrowski Rorschach test. A comparison of all the groups was completed to determine how different they were from each other. The groups were tested by multivariate tests of difference between the groups. The findings of the test were proven to be significant. There was a difference of proportions test used to make sure that all subjects were classified based on step 6 of the chart provided within the information for the