J Youth Adolesc. 2012 Oct;41(10):1259-66. doi: 10.1007/s10964-012-9749-8. Epub 2012 Mar 10.
Recent publications in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence present a variety of topics exploring adolescents' mental functioning in the twenty first century. Conceptually, many of the articles address the intriguing, though rarely explicit, question of developmental continuities and change from adolescence to adulthood. Such investigations, which are particularly prominent in articles that discuss personality dispositions such as impulsivity or lack of empathy and their relationship to emotionally disturbed or maladaptive interpersonal behaviors, examine interactional effects of these dispositions within the personality-context matrix. From a methodological perspective, however, the major tools used for assessing personality dispositions are self-report inventories while performance-based methods, previously defined as projective tests, are not used at all despite the wide range of empirical studies that provide support for their psychometric properties. This commentary suggests that applying a theoretically based, multi-method assessment procedure in empirical research would be most fruitful for any study aimed at exploring mental functioning in adolescents. As an example, I would use the Rorschach Inkblot Method, currently being internationally considered as the most frequently applied personality test for assessing adolescents. Implications for research, practice and policy decision-making are discussed.
最近《青少年杂志》上的一些出版物提出了各种主题，探讨了 21 世纪青少年的心理功能。从概念上讲，许多文章探讨了一个有趣但很少明确提出的问题，即从青春期到成年的发展连续性和变化。这些研究在讨论冲动或缺乏同理心等人格特质及其与情绪困扰或适应不良的人际行为之间关系的文章中尤为突出，它们研究了这些特质在人格-情境矩阵中的相互作用效应。然而，从方法论的角度来看，用于评估人格特质的主要工具是自我报告量表，而之前定义为投射测试的基于表现的方法根本没有使用，尽管有大量的实证研究为其心理测量特性提供了支持。本评论认为，在实证研究中应用基于理论的多方法评估程序，对于任何旨在探索青少年心理功能的研究都是最有成效的。例如，我将使用罗夏墨迹测验，目前它被国际上认为是最常用于评估青少年的人格测验。讨论了对研究、实践和决策的影响。
