Adult nonpatient data for the Rorschach Mutuality of Autonomy Scale
The Mutuality of Autonomy (MOA) Scale is a theoretically based scoring method that measures object relations themes within responses to the Rorschach Inkblot Test. Despite having been used in numerous research studies, nonpatient data on the MOA Scale are lacking. To develop nonpatient norms, 100 participants were randomly selected from Shaffer, Erdberg, and Haroian's (1999) nonpatient study. From their original sample of 123 participants, 46 male and 54 female Rorschachs were rescored using the MOA Scale, and the results were correlated with variables from Exner's Comprehensive System (CS) and scales from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-second edition (MMPI-2) both obtained from Shaffer et al.'s original study. Four MOA Scale scores were compiled: the mean object relations (MOR) score, the average of the lowest object relations (LOR) scores, the average of the highest object relation (HOR) scores, and the overall mode MOA Scale score. All scores indicated that the general state of object relations in the nonpatient sample was adaptive and healthy. There were no differences between males and females. Correlations between adaptive MOA Scale scores and CS variables H, COP, and GHR were significant as hypothesized. There were unexpected correlations between adaptive MOA Scale scores and AG, PHR, WSumC, and Popular scores. The only MOA Scale and MMPI-2 scores that correlated were the mode MOA Scale and the Marital Distress Scale. The comparative results support to the idea that the four MOA Scale scores yield the most information when viewed together and that they are relatively weak if viewed individually. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)
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Pepe S Santana
(2005)
Adult nonpatient data for the Rorschach Mutuality of Autonomy Scale
PhD thesis.