San Diego County Juvenile Forensic Department, San Diego, CA, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2013 Oct;28(15):2981-3003. doi: 10.1177/0886260513488688. Epub 2013 May 27.
This Rorschach study explored the suppression of aggression content when violent offenders and nonoffenders are asked to present themselves as not posing a threat of dangerousness in a court role-playing context. Aggressive content and complexity in this suppressive role-play context was compared to a neutral control condition. A total of 41 participants, approximately half violent offenders and half nonoffenders took the Rorschach under both conditions. Results indicate that both groups suppressed aggression content on the Rorschach without altering response complexity. This large effect size for testing condition may partly explain the inconsistencies across previous studies. It is possible that violent offenders have typically been tested in highly suppressive conditions whereas nonoffender or normative groups may have been tested in relatively low suppression conditions. If so, aggression score differences may be a reflection of the testing condition, not group differences. Both instructional sets produced similar levels of complexity, so that individuals do not simplify responses when they screen out aggressive attributions. Violent offenders did not differ from nonviolent offenders in terms of aggression content, but did produce more simplistic records. In addition, this study also undertook a semantic, textual analysis and found that individuals in the suppressive condition tended to eliminate many response elaborations, particularly those with negative of threatening connotations.
本罗夏测验研究探讨了在法庭角色扮演情境中，要求暴力罪犯和非罪犯表现出自己没有威胁性时，对攻击性内容的抑制。将这种抑制性角色扮演情境中的攻击性内容和复杂性与中性对照条件进行了比较。共有 41 名参与者，大约一半是暴力罪犯，另一半是非罪犯，他们在两种条件下都接受了罗夏测验。结果表明，两组人在罗夏测验中都抑制了攻击性内容，而没有改变反应的复杂性。测试条件的这种大效应量可能部分解释了之前研究结果的不一致。暴力罪犯可能通常在高度抑制的条件下接受测试，而非罪犯或正常群体可能在相对低抑制的条件下接受测试。如果是这样，攻击性得分的差异可能反映的是测试条件，而不是群体差异。两种指导语都产生了类似水平的复杂性，因此当个体排除攻击性归因时，他们不会简化反应。暴力罪犯在攻击性内容方面与非暴力罪犯没有差异，但他们的记录确实更简单。此外，这项研究还进行了语义和文本分析，发现抑制条件下的个体往往会消除许多反应的细节，特别是那些具有负面或威胁含义的细节。
