Yanovski A, Menduke H, Albertson M G
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Percept Mot Skills. 1995 Jun;80(3 Pt 2):1319-40. doi: 10.2466/pms.1995.80.3c.1319.
Examined here are the effects of gender and Visual Imagery Reactivity in 80 consecutively selected psychiatric outpatients. The participants were grouped by gender and by the amounts of responsiveness to preceding therapy work using imagery (Imagery Nonreactors and Reactors). In the group of Imagery Nonreactors were 13 men and 22 women, and in the Reactor group were 17 men and 28 women. Compared were the responses to standard Rorschach (Conventional condition) with visual associations to memory images of Rorschach inkblots (Imagery condition). Responses were scored using the Visual Imagery Reactivity (VIR) scoring system, a general, test-nonspecific scoring method. Nonparametric statistical analysis showed that critical indicators of Imagery Reactivity encoded as High Affect/Conflict score and its derivatives associated with sexual or bizarre content were not significantly associated with gender; neither was Neutral Content score which categorizes "non-Reactivity." These results support the notion that system's criteria of Visual Imagery Reactivity can be applied equally to both men and women for the classification of Imagery Reactors and Nonreactors. Discussed are also the speculative consequences of extending the tolerance range of significance levels for the interaction between Reactivity and sex above the customary limit of p < .05 in borderline cases. The results of such an analysis may imply a trend towards more rigid defensiveness under Imagery and toward lesser verbal productivity in response to either the Conventional or the Imagery task among women who are Nonreactors. In Reactors, men produced significantly more Sexual Reference scores (in the subcategory not associated with High Affect/Conflict) than women, but this could be attributed to the effect of tester's and subjects' gender combined.
本文研究了80名连续入选的精神科门诊患者的性别和视觉意象反应性的影响。参与者按性别以及对先前使用意象的治疗工作的反应程度（意象无反应者和反应者）进行分组。在意象无反应者组中有13名男性和22名女性，在反应者组中有17名男性和28名女性。比较了对标准罗夏测验（传统条件）的反应与对罗夏墨迹记忆图像的视觉联想（意象条件）的反应。使用视觉意象反应性（VIR）评分系统进行评分，这是一种通用的、与测验无关的评分方法。非参数统计分析表明，编码为高情感/冲突分数及其与性或奇异内容相关的衍生物的意象反应性关键指标与性别无显著关联；对“无反应性”进行分类的中性内容分数也无显著关联。这些结果支持这样一种观点，即视觉意象反应性系统的标准可同等应用于男性和女性，以对意象反应者和无反应者进行分类。还讨论了在临界情况下将反应性与性别之间相互作用的显著性水平容忍范围扩展到习惯的p <.05界限以上的推测性后果。这种分析结果可能意味着，无反应性女性在面对意象时更倾向于严格防御，对传统或意象任务的言语表达能力较低。在反应者中，男性产生的性相关分数（在与高情感/冲突无关的子类别中）显著多于女性，但这可能归因于测试者和受试者性别的综合影响。
