Semi projective techniques to assess personality
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I'm interested in using projective measures to uncover aspects of personality that individuals may not necessarily be aware of. I have used the PSE (a more psychometrically sound derivative of the TAT) to assess implicit motivation, and I'm keen to develop new ways of assessing these unconscious drives.
Other measurement tools exist (such as the MMG), yet these are often classified as semi-projective, since they impose limitations on the kind of responses an individual can give (e.g. the endorsement of pre-written statements) meaning that they begin to assess respondent rather than operant behaviors.
My question is this: How unstructured does the response format have to be for a measure to be classified as truly projective, and for the target of assessment to be implicit personality constructs, rather than explicit ones? It it possible to impose some structure on the ways participants can respond without activating reflective processes of self-evaluation and selective presentation?
Other measurement tools exist (such as the MMG), yet these are often classified as semi-projective, since they impose limitations on the kind of responses an individual can give (e.g. the endorsement of pre-written statements) meaning that they begin to assess respondent rather than operant behaviors.
My question is this: How unstructured does the response format have to be for a measure to be classified as truly projective, and for the target of assessment to be implicit personality constructs, rather than explicit ones? It it possible to impose some structure on the ways participants can respond without activating reflective processes of self-evaluation and selective presentation?
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