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HAND TEST
Edwin E. Wagner, Ph.D.
Presentation by
SYEDA ANUM FATIMA
&
SADIA MISBAH
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INTRODUCTION
OF
HAND TEST
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INTRODUCTION
Diagnostic Technique
Contain pictures Of hands as a
projective medium.
Stimulus material consist of 10
unbound cards containing simple
line drawings of hands in various
position.
The 10th card is blank
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DEVELOPMENT
OF
HAND TEST
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Development
The development began in later
1950s.
Piotrowski (1957) was felt that a
projective instrument was needed by
its nature was designed to mirror
attitudes and action tendencies which
are close to the surface and apt to
reveal the individuals behaviour.
Responses to hands in ambiguous
poses indicate these hierarchical and
diagnostically useful scheme.
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LIMITATIONS
Of
HAND TEST
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Limitations
This test cannot be used alone as it
does not provide complete and
concrete diagnosis.
The test is short as compared to other
projective techniques. It is fairly
structured providing good or bad
responses that may hinder its
discriminatory ability.
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ADMINISTRATION
OF
HAND TEST
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Administration
Time required is 10 min including
recording of responses but not the
scoring.
Before administering we have to
establish rapport.
Examiner and examinee should be
seated at a table facing each other .
Stimulus cards should be lined faced
down on the table.
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Instances
Instances include the following:
If the examinee gives a short,
response card, such as Its up, the
examiner should prompt the examinee
by asking, What is it doing?
If the examinee gives only one
response to the first card, the
examiner should ask, Anything
else?
When an examinee fails a card the
examiner says, Can u guess?.
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Recording Procedures
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Use Of Symbols
The recording of responses can be
simplified by using the following
scoring symbols.
I. : Examinee turns card.
II. <, >, v, : Examinee turns card from
initial position to a position with the
top margin of the card to the left (<),
top margin of the card to the right (>),
top margin of the card down (v), or
if the examinee leaves the card in its
initial position.
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Record Form
Used to record responses of the
client.
Initial response time response is also
recorded.
Also rotations of cards are recorded in
the record form as:
<, >, ,
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SCORING CATEGORIES
OF
HAND TEST
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Scoring Categories
Quantitative categories Qualitative Categories
Interpersonal (INT)
Ambivalent (AMB)
Affection (AFF)
Dependence (DEP)
Communication (COM)
Exhibition (EXH)
Direction (DIR)
Aggression (AGG)
Environmental (ENV)
Acquisition (ACQ)
Active (ACT)
Passive (PAS)
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Scoring Categories
Quantitative categories Qualitative Categories
Maladjustive (MAL)
Oral (ORA)
Tension (TEN)
Crippled (CRI)
Fear (FEAR)
Withdrawal (WITH)
Description (DFS)
Bizarre (BIZ)
Failure (FAIL)
Perplexity (PER)
Sensual (SEN)
Sexual (SEX)
Original (O)
Repetition (RPT)
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DESCRIPTION
OF
SCORING CATEGORIES
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Quantitative Scoring
Categories
INTERPERSONAL(INT)
1. Affection(AFF)
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2-Dependence(DEP)
Expressed dependence on need for
help.
Aid from another person
A drowning person calling for help.
A hand folded in prayer, asking for
forgiveness.
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3-Communiation(COM)
Presenting or exchange of information.
Stressing a point in conversation
A child holding finger up, showing
how old he is.
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4-Exhibition(EXH)
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5-Direction(DIR)
Dominating, directing or influencing
activities of others.
Police officer saying, stop!
Giving a command
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6-Aggresion(AGG)
Involves giving of pain or aggression.
Trying to scare someone
Boxing in the wring
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Environmental Responses(ENV)
Represent generalized attitude
towards the impersonal world.
Activities that individual consider
important for survival.
It is classified in three subcategories.
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i-Acquistion (ACQ)
Attempt to obtain a goal or a object.
Movement is ongoing and the goal is
unattained still in doubt.
Trying to catch a football
Grabbing for something that has
fallen
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ii-Active(ACT)
An action or attitude designed to
manipulate, attain or alter an object or
goal.
Active differs from Acquisition (ACQ)
in that the object or goal has been or
will be accomplished.
Writing with a pencil
Throwing a ball
Picking up a coin
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Maladjustive Response(MAL)
Those responses of which individual is
partially aware, in carrying out various
actions due to experienced inner
weakness.
Maladjustive responses can be divided
in three subcategories.
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1-Tension(TEN)
It indicates energy in being exerted but
nothing or little is accomplished.
A feeling of tension, anxiety is present.
A fist clenched in anger
Tensing hands to see if nerves are
steady
Holding something everything very
tight
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2-Crippled(CRIP)
Includes responses like
A dead person hand
Womans hand. She's been hurt
That hand is bleeding.
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3-Fear(Fear)
It is scored when the hand is
threatened with pain, injury or death
The response is classified as fear if
hand is perceived as causing pain,
injury or death.
My fathers hand, like he is going to
hit me.
Falling back, trying to save himself.
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Withdrawal Response(WITH)
It represents an inability of the
examinee to project an appropriate
action onto the picture of hand.
It is classified in three subcategories.
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1-Description(DES)
Examinee gives simple responses.
Just a hand.
Palm up.
2-Bizzare(BIZ)
Based on hallucinatory content, or
other peculiar thinking.
A black bug
A crocodile creeping along the wall
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3-Failure(FAIL)
No scorable response at all is given to
a particular card.
Response is tabulated when the
scoring summary is not included in the
response total.
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Qualitative Scoring
Categories
17 categories have been identified.
Card responses may be classified one
by one or more than one qualitative
category per response is rare.
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1-Ambivalent (AMB)
This response occur when hesitation
or uncertainty is voiced about
imparted action tendencies.
Is he demanding something?(Q
)Could be demanding or ordering
someone.
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2-Automatic Phrase(AUT)
Occur in the beginning or end of a
response to the series of cards.
Usual way of scoring automatic
phrase(AUT) is by underlying the
phrase and counting the phrase when
the test is completed.
Well, what could that be?A person
punching someone in the nose.
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3-Cylindrical(CYL)
Hand is perceived as holding,
manipulating or using an object i.e.
large enough to occupy space
between the hand and fingers.
Like a plumber screwing a pipe
Holding a flag pole
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4-Denial(DEN)
The reaction is stronger than in
ambivalence response and is definitely
avoided by the examinee.
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5-Emotion(EMO)
Response is invested with emotion.
Response is full of intense feeling.
Real happy, just bursting right out
with joy. hasnt seen his buddy in
years and is really glad to shake his
hand(AFF).
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6-Gross(GRO)
It indicates an aggressive act which is
uncontrolled and completely
unsocialized.
Split somebodys skull open with a
baseball bat.
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7-Hiding(HID)
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8-Immature(IM)
Perceives hand as relating to children
or animals.
Pet a dog
Teacher. Sending a child to the
board.
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9-Impotent(IMP)
Expressed inability on examinees part
to respond to or figure out the test
stimuli.
These are too hard for me.
Im too old to do this
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10-In Animate(INA)
Does not see the hand as belonging to
live human being.
Hand is associated with inanimate
portrayals such as painting,
statue or movie screen.
Not doing anything, just elegant and
beautiful.
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11-Movement(MOV)
It specifies random, unproductive
activity.
Purposeless, repetitive activity
imparted to the movement of hand.
Like it is folding and unfolding(Q)
Tense and just closing and opening.
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12-Oral(ORA)
The response implying ingestion of
food, liquid or drug scored in oral
response.
Has a fork in his hand, eating.
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13-Perplexity(PER)
The stimuli are different and that he or
she is puzzled.
What is it doing?(Yes)Well, it could
be doing alot of things; you cant be
sure(Fail).
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14-Sensual(SEN)
Involve tactual, sensual element.
Hand is seen as deriving pleasure from
feeling or touching people or objects.
Working with clay. Likes the feeling of
it(ACT)
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15-Sexual(SEX)
Hand is directly engaged in sexual
activity.
To relieve tension
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16-Original(O)
Response should only be scored by
experienced examiner who has given
and interpreted large number of
response.
Response is appropriate to the drawn
hand unusual and original.
Intelligence and creativity should not
be scored unless examinee is sure
about the response.
Using your hand to explain how
current flow in a physics class
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17-Repetition(RPT)
Examinee gives same response on a
number of cards.
When repetition occur a checkmark
should be made in the scoring column.
That hand is waving
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Additional Categories
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Additional Categories
The additional qualitative features may be
scored provided they are interpreted with
caution.
It is recommended that these scores
not be recorded in the summary
section of the booklet.
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1- Ball
Hand is seen as bouncing, throwing or
otherwise handling a ball or a round
object.
Catching a baseball.
Ball response is given by individuals
usually males who are interested in
sports.
Ball response should be interpreted
cautiously.
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2- Drug
Usually under the oral category.
Some examinee prefer to score it
separately because of implication of
examinee orality that has led to drug
usage rather than less dangerous oral
habits such as eating, drinking.
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3- Food
Response related to oral category.
Sometimes used to differentiate direct,
food ingestion from other related oral
activities such as smoking.
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4- Evasive(EVAS)
It is not a common response when it
does occur it is given to psychopath
and other personality types.
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5- Concreteness(CONC)
Represent an imaginal failure.
Examinee fall back on something in
order to come up with a response. This
reaction is given by examinee with low
mental ability.
Examinee with low IQ or brain damage
says:
Thats your hand holding the card.
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6- Feminine(FEM)or Masculine(MASC)
This category is scored when the sex
of hand is mentioned.
Thats a mans hand moving a piece
of machinery
Male-Female differences pertain life
orders.
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7- Homosexuality(HOMO)
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8- Money(MON)
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9- Personification(PERS)
It is scored when examinee refer to
themselves
Personification response is given to
self centred people who are interested
in their own problems and have
trouble making an objective.
It can be found in normal people but
tends to be encountered more
frequently with hysterics, borderline
cases, and certain types of schizoids.
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10- Self(SELF)
Responses are scored when the
activity is self-directed. Such a
response denotes an interest in
oneself instead of the environment.
Self response involves a concern with
feelings, pleasures, and activities
which derive from the self rather that
other people or the impersonal
environment.
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11- Symbolism(SYM)
It occurs when an examinee assigns
abstract meaning to an action or
description.
A dancer making expressive
movements to symbolize the joy of
creation.
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PSYCHOMETRIC
PROPERTIES
RELIABILITY
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Internal Consistency
Following study have examined the
internal consistency of the hand test.
The first study involved 100 protocols
of individuals belonging to various
groups.
Split half reliabilities were obtained.
Comparing card 1,3,5,7&9 with the
pathological score for cards 2,4,6,8,10.
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VALIDITY OF HAND
TEST
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Criterion Validity
The ability of hand test responses to
differentiate between normals and
schizophrenics by (Wagner,1961).
Groups of male schizophrenics and
50 normal male college students were
selected.
Correlation was composed for four
hand test variables
Interpersonal=.56
Active=.40
Maladjustive=.36
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Predictive Validity
Study by Darrbney and Wagner(1980)
investigated the relationship of the
hand test and predicted success in
medical colleges.
23 students participated, 13 males
and 10 females.
Students were given hand test and
Rorschach and index of
maladjustment.
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Concurrent Validity
A number of studies have examined
the relationship of hand test
performance to various behaviours
and performance.
Panek, Wagner, Barrett and
Alexander(1978) studied the
relationship of hand test performance
with the automatic accidents.
170 females were taken.
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INTERPRETATION
QUANTITATIVE
INTERPRETATION
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Quantitative
Interpretation
Interpersonal Responses
Interpersonal responses involve
relation with other people.
Lack of interpersonal responses
indicate an individual whose life lack
interpersonal roles.
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I.
Affection
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II. Dependence
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III. Communication
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IV. Exhibition
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V. Direction
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VI. Aggression
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Environmental Responses
Environmental responses are assumed
to represent generalized attitudes to
impersonal world.
Environmental responses are broken
down into three more specific
quantitative scoring categories.
1. Acquisition responses
2. Active responses
3. Passive responses
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I.
Acquisition Responses
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Maladjustive Responses
Maladjustive responses arise from a
failure to meet goals.
Normal individuals who are suffering
from tension and feelings of
inadequacy can produce a small
number of Maladjustive responses.
Maladjustive responses are divided
into three subcategories:
i. Tension
ii. Crippled
iii.Fear
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I.
Tension Responses
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Withdrawal Responses
Withdrawal responses reflect an
rejection of meaningful, effective life
rules.
Withdrawal responses are not given by
the normative groups so withdrawal
responses should be considered
pathological.
Withdrawal category is subdivided into
three more categories.
i. Description
ii. Bizarre
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iii.Failure
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I.
Description
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INTERPRETATION
QUALITATIVE
INTERPRETATION
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Qualitative Interpretation
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1. Ambivalent
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2. Automatic Phrase
It is rare
It represents a feeble, stereotyped
attempt to induce familiarity and
structure into which it is a difficult,
disturbing task for the examinee.
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3. Cylindrical
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4. Denial
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5. Emotion
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6. Gross
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7. Hiding
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8. Immature
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9. Impotent
It is rare.
It is representative of cognitive
problems and may be associated with
low intelligence.
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10.Inanimate
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11.Movement
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12.Oral
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13.Perplexity
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14.Sensual
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15.Sexual
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16.Original
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17.Repetition
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