TAT Test

Test: TAT
Demographics
Name Z.A
Age 27
Sex Female
Education F.A
No. of siblings 4 sisters
Birth order 2nd
Family system Nuclear
Occupation nothing
Marital status unmarried
Religion Islam
Informant mother
Reason for referral.
She is nervous and scared sometimes. She is also suffering from feelings of being powerless, and
sometimes she faints without any reason. She her mother decided her to took ton doctor. The doctor
sent her to psychiatry ward for further assessment because he thought there is some other reason
behind being faint.
History of present illness
She is scared and nervous from start of her life. She doesn’t like her father as he always angry at
them and he beats her mother every day. Because she doesn’t have son. So, she is much scared of
him. Now she is getting older day by day according to mother. Mother wants her to get married
soon but she become afraid and scared at the name of marriage. She also faints sometimes. She
said she is afraid that her husband will also beat her and will scold her on every matter. Her home
environment is so suffocated that even she can’t share her expressions. She had good bonding with
her mother. But she doesn’t share such good bonding with her sisters. Thematic Appreciation test
Introduction
The TAT is a widely used projective test developed by Henry and Murray for the
assessment of children and adult. It is designed to reveal an individual’s perception of interpersonal
relationships. There are 31 picture cards serve as stimuli for stories and descriptions about
relationships and social situations. These cards include subsets for boys, girl, men and women. The
test is useful as part of a comprehensive study of personality and in the interpretation of behavior
disorders, psychosomatic illnesses, neuroses, and psychoses.
Objective of the test
This test is designed to reveal an individual's perception of interpersonal relationships. The main
purpose of this test is to reveal an individual’s drive, emotions and conflicts. It is also used to
assess disordered thinking.
Administration of the test
First of all, ask client to sit on a chair. Then ask client to look at the picture. Once done, then write
a complete story about the picture you see above. The story must have begun, middle and an end.
Then ask client to describe the feelings and thoughts of the persons. The client completes the whole
test in 15-20 minutes.
Reliability and validity of test.
As to reliability, Harrison and Rotter, using a three-point scale (+=1, ?=2, -=3) found a correlation
of .73 between two raters, and using a five-point scale (++=1, +=2, ?=3, -:4, --=5) found a
correlation of .77 between two raters.
Story by patient.
There is man and women in picture. girl is scared from men. she is a slave for the men. and she is
thinking if this thing is not made then the men will beat her. she is trying to make the chemical for
him and scared of being beaten by men. men is bad person and he is harassing her that if u can't
make it then I will kill u. he is just waiting for her to get failed.
Interpretation
Table 1.1
Table given below is showing the raw scores and average scores on TAT.
LIWC dimension Your data Female average
Need for Achievement 5 5.6
Need for Affiliation 0 1.3
Need for power 5 1.8
1.25 0.8
Self-references (I, my)
Social words 2.5 12.0
Positive emotions 0 2.1
Negative emotions 8.75 1.6
Big words (> 6 letters) 6.25 17.7
Overall, she wrote 80 words in ten minutes.
Need for Achievement. The typical person generally scores between 4.5 and 8.5, with an average
of 5.7. The higher your number, the more you wrote about achievement-related themes. Her need
for achievement is average. She doesn’t want to achieve anything.
Need for Affiliation. Because this picture typically elicits themes associated with achievement,
most people don't pay too much attention to human relationships in their story. In fact, the typical
person scores around 1.2 on this dimension. Indeed, 30% of participants score 0.00.
Need for Power. Most people score between 0.8 and 2.7, with the average being 1.7. High scores
on the need for power dimension hint that she is concerned with who is or is not in control and
who has the most status.
Self-references: People who use a high rate of self-references tend to be more insecure, nervous,
and possibly depressed. They also tend to be more honest. She has high scores on this domain
which is indicating that she is insecure, nervous and scared of something in her house.
Social words: Social words are words that make reference to other people (e.g., they, she, us, talk,
friends). Generally, people who use a high level of social words are more outgoing and more
socially connected with others.
Positive emotion words: The more that people use positive emotion words (e.g., happy, love,
good), the more optimistic they tend to be. If you feel good about yourself, you are more likely to
see the world in a positive way.
Negative emotion words: Use of negative emotion words (e.g., sad, kill, afraid) is weakly linked
to people's ratings of anxiety or even neurotic. People who have had a bad day are more likely to
see the world through negatively-tinted glasses. As she have too much negativity in her house and
home environment is also suffocated, cojusted and conservative. So, she is also full of negative
emotions.
Big words (words with more than 6 letters): Use of big words is weakly related to higher grades
and standardized test scores. People who use a high rate of big words also tend to be less emotional
and oftentimes psychologically distant or detached.
References
Harrison, Ross & Julian B. Rotter.(1945). "A Note on the Reliability of the Thematic
Apperception Test," The Journal of Abnormal ~ Social Psychology, 40:97-99. Thematic
Apperception Test from https://www.utpsyc.org/about.html

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Test: TAT

No. of siblings 4 sisters

Birth order 2nd

Family system Nuclear

Marital status unmarried

Reason for referral.

History of present illness

Objective of the test

Administration of the test

Reliability and validity of test.

LIWC dimension Your data Female average

Need for Achievement 5 5.6

Need for Affiliation 0 1.3

Need for power 5 1.8

Social words 2.5 12.0

Positive emotions 0 2.1

Negative emotions 8.75 1.6

Big words (> 6 letters) 6.25 17.7

Overall, she wrote 80 words in ten minutes.

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