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Personality: dark traits and pathology

Rorschach Performance Assessment System (and the Rorschach Comprehensive System).

R-PAS (CS)

What it measures
Personality structure, perceptual-thinking problems, stress and distress, self and other representation, engagement and cognitive processing, derived from responses to ten standardized inkblots
Length and format
10 inkblot cards; R-Optimized administration targets approx 2-3 responses per card (approx 20-30 total). free-response performance task with structured coding and inquiry (projective)
Language versions
Manuals and coding materials in 15+ langs approx incl. ES, PT, IT, DE, FR, JA, ZH, TR, NL; strong Brazilian, Italian, and Japanese research programmes
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Meyer GJ, Viglione DJ, Mihura JL, Erard RE, Erdberg P. Rorschach Performance Assessment System: Administration, Coding, Interpretation, and Technical Manual. Toledo, OH: Rorschach Performance Assessment System; 2011.

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