How do I score thee? Let me count the ways. Or some different methods of categorizing Rorschach responses

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 399-421

  Masling, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0036918235     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327752JPA7903_02     Document Type: Article

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