Quantified judgments of mental health from the Rorschach, TAT, and Clinical Status Interview by means of a scaling technique.

Meaningful measures of mental health derived from clinical instruments such as the Rorschach, TAT, and Clinical Status Interview (CSI) are not ordinarily quantifiable without sacrificing the subjective, clinical, and global nature of the data. A practical technique for scaling clinical judgments is described. Judgments of 35 schizophrenic patients yielded intrajudge reliabilities from .79-.96, and interjudge reliabilities from .87-.95. Days hospitalized during the subsequent 6 mo. correlated -.63 with the TAT scale, -.58 with the Rorschach scale, and -.71 with the CSI scale. Days hospitalized subsequent to a later testing, correlated -.64, -.49, and -.64 with scales determined from that later testing. The scaling technique thus was found to be reliable and valid for measuring mental health. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)