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Inter Scorer Reliability of Hand Test in Pakistan

    Fatima Zehra

    Federal Public Service Commission, Islamabad, Pakistan


Received
30 Jan, 1988
Accepted
15 May, 1989
Published
30 Jun, 1989

Hand Test is a projective test which has been used in west in several studies to assess various aspects of personality and behaviour. A major criticism on projective tests is that their scoring depends a good deal on subjective judgement of scorer. Two studies (Maloney & Wagner 1979; Oswald & Loftus, 1967) have ascertained scorer reliability of Hand Test. In the first study the examinees were enrolled in a state University (mean age 20.06, SD 1.79). Two judges, a well trained graduate student and author of the test. were involved as scorers. The over all agreement was 89.34%. Spearman Correlation for quantitative sub-categories and combined categories ranged from 0.71 to 1.00. The median correlation was .91. Second study was carried out in South Australia on 114 normal population of boys between 13-18 years of age. Two judges, one working in child guidance clinic and the other in social welfare department scored the protocols independently. The percentage agreement was 73%. The present study was carried out in Pakistan to see agreement between three scorers on scoring the responses on Hand Test.

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Zehra, F. (1989). Inter Scorer Reliability of Hand Test in Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research, 4(1-2), 43-46. https://pjpr.scione.com/cms/abstract.php?id=602

ACS Style
Zehra, F. Inter Scorer Reliability of Hand Test in Pakistan. Pak. J. Psychol. Res 1989, 4, 43-46. https://pjpr.scione.com/cms/abstract.php?id=602

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Zehra F. Inter Scorer Reliability of Hand Test in Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research. 1989; 4(1-2): 43-46. https://pjpr.scione.com/cms/abstract.php?id=602

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Zehra, Fatima. 1989. "Inter Scorer Reliability of Hand Test in Pakistan" Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research 4, no. 1-2: 43-46. https://pjpr.scione.com/cms/abstract.php?id=602