DUAL SCALING ANALYSIS OF RORSCHACH RESPONSES IN A HONG-KONG CHINESE SAMPLE

Rychlak's sociocultural model was used to investigate the relationship between Rorschach content responses and moods in the Hong Kong Chinese culture. Subjects were asked to project various moods onto inkblots amd describe the first thing they saw. Dual scaling analysis of this frequency response data of Rorschach content responses by moods, yielded three significant solutions (p < 0.5) which accounted for approximately 90 percent of the variability in the data. These findings supported a clear multidimensional structure in the patterns of association between Rorschach content responses and moods. In general, these associations corresponded to Western theoretical expectations. However, important differences were also noted, such as human content responses exceeding animal content responses by a factor of four. Other significant differences between these results and those of earlier Western and Asian studies were discussed along with findings on sex differences.