Doctoral Dissertations

Date of Award

5-1991

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Major

Psychology

Major Professor

Sandra Loucks

Committee Members

Al Burstein, John Lounsbury, Priscilla White

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between Rorschach's constructs of introversive and extratensive and Jimg's constructs of introverted and extraverted. Rorschach's Experience Balance was used to determine Erlebnistypus, or Experience Type and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was used to determine Einstellungstypus, or Attitude Type. The Erlebnistypus was determined using both a weighted and an unweighted color Experience Balance in all comparisons in order to determine the contribution of color weighting. T3T)es, as determined by the Experience Balance, were compared to types determined by the MBTI Extraversion-Introversion (El) scale. Component scores and transformed scores of the Experience Balance and the MBTI El scale were correlated. Finally, use of color and human movement and emotion were used as discriminators in an attempt to determine type as measured by the MBTI El scale. Subjects participating in this study were 44 College Scholars and Honors students at the University of Tennessee. Subjects were all high achieving and had been screened for serious psychopathology. The data for this study were collected over a period of three years. There were no significant relationships between the Rorschach indices and the MBTI indices, regardless of the method of comparison, when all of the subjects were used. Weighting color made no contribution to the ability of the Experience Balance to predict introversion or extraversion as measured by the MBTI. The Experience Balance and the MBTI El scale strongly agreed when introverts as determined by the MBTI were examined separately from extraverts. Sensors, as determined by the MBTI, demonstrated the opposite relationship between the Experience Balance and the MBTI El scale, when examined separately from Intuitives. Thus, the hypothesized relationship appears to exist for some subject types, but not for others, and appears in a negative form for yet other types, suggesting that accuracy of interpretation of the Experience Balance in Jungian terms may vary depending on individual personality characteristics.

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