The Rorschach Rating Scale: Item Adequacy, Scale ... - Psychology

240 MEYER, BATES, GACONOInterpersonal Experiences and Feelings149. This person feels free to interact closely with others, without fear of losingidentity and without fear that others will be overly intrusive. [Object Relations–Differentiation:PRP]150. This person loses a clear sense of personal identity when s/he gets emotionallyclose to others. [POR]151. This person has permeable psychological boundaries and experiences his/her personal thoughts and feelings as transparent to others and vulnerable totheir influence. [Ego Structure–Boundary: PRP]152. This person has difficulty distinguishing his/her personal feelings from theemotions of other people. Without recognizing it, s/he generates his/herown conflictual feelings in others, but then believes other people havecaused him/her to feel the way s/he does. [Projective Identification: LDS orRDS]153. In relationships, this person experiences polarized reactions regarding control.S/he feels either controlled by others or controlling of them, coerced byothers or coercive of them. [POR; MOA]154. This person desires close and intimate relationships. [SumT]155. This person has strong needs for support and nurturance. [Food]156. This person is highly motivated to obtain guidance, approval, and supportfrom other people. [ROD]157. This person feels lonely and has strong wishes to be emotionally connectedwith others. [SumT]158. This person feels distant or isolated from others. [Item 27, repeated]159. In interpersonal relationships this person feels s/he is the object of aggressiveverbal criticism or physical attack. [Aggression–Past: GM–AG]160. This person experiences pleasure in the suffering of others. [Sadomasochisticresponse: GM–AG]161. This person experiences pleasure by maintaining power and control overothers. [Sadomasochistic response: GM–AG]162. This person does not communicate many of his/her feelings in words, butinstead, by stirring those feelings in others. [Projective Identification: LDSor RDS]163. When I am with this person, I find myself experiencing feelings that are atypicaland do not seem to be my own. [Projective Identification: LDS or RDS]Other Personality Characteristics164. This person’s thoughts and feelings are rich and varied (although they maynot necessarily be adaptive or realistic). [Factor 1; R with Lambda; ComplexityIndex]Copyright © 2000 All Rights Reserved