As in Floyd et al. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted on the 129 x 10 matrix of means. Introduction - Projective Testing Fons van de Vijver Department of Social Sciences, Netherland Keywords Projective Testing Projective testing has a long history in psychology. The debate about its suitability also has a long history. Proponents tend to focus on the clinical usefulness of the instrument and point out that there is much experience, gathered by many different clinicians, that the considerable freedom of clients to generate responses can be important and efficient aids in getting information about the psychological makeup of a person.
Opponents tend to focus on the psychometrically inadequate basis of many projective tests.
It is a remarkable characteristic of projective tests that throughout their history the two camps of proponents and opponents have remained fairly strictly separated and that cross-referencing was rare. The discussion was often not aimed at a balanced treatment of the advantages and disadvantages of projective tests, but at an overall assessment of their adequacy. Given that there are so many different projective tests, it is counterproductive to attempt to make categorical statements about the adequacy or inadequacy of projective tests. The current ITC Bulletin presents two articles that describe recent developments in projective testing, in particular the Rorschach Inkblot Method. The first one has been written by Raymond Costello and describes both a hermeneutic and statistical approach to assessment with the Rorschach.