Review of Vocational personalities: an application of the Rorschach Group Method

Abstract

Reviews the book, Vocational personalities: an application of the Rorschach Group Method by Goldie Ruth Kaback (1946). This study tests the hypothesis that vocational choice is in part a function of personality, the differences in personality responsible for a given occupational choice being measurable by the Rorschach Group Method. The author is to be commended for a type of study greatly needed. It seems however, first, that such a study can hardly attain highly reliable or valid results as long as socioeconomic pressures, family predilections, etc., determine the chosen career, often quite without regard to the personal wishes or capabilities of the individual involved; and that, second, a Rorschach study is difficult if not impossible when scoring categories of the test are considered (as is almost necessary) without the benefit of refinements in statistics of percentages, ratios, and sub-relationships. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)