Danilo Rodrigues Silva

• Emeritus Professor
• University of Lisbon

This article tries to find if color may the cause of higher frequency in some Rorschach normative studies, it was observed that the highest frequency of perceptive distortion, as it is suggested by some normative studies. Administration of cards II, III, VIII, IX and X, in their original and achromatic versions, to two groups of 40 both sex young p...

Results from some Rorschach normative studies revealed that the said red cards II and two of the three said colored cards VIII and X elicit the highest frequency of poor form quality responses. This fact permitted the formulation of a hypothesis that color could be the cause of such an occurrence. Administration of a standardized and achromatic ver...

The effect of color on the production of responses to the Rorschach task has been considered by investigators from 2 different positions: (a) that color has little effect on the production of responses, and (b) that color increases the number of responses. Some previous results found by the current investigators have supported the first position fo...

This study addresses the relationships between the perceived quality of life and the personality styles measured with the Portuguese adaptation of the MIPS-R. Life satisfaction was measured with the Portuguese version of the QOLI. The study was carried out with a sample of 43 university students: 36 females and 7 males (M age = 21.0; SD = 5.9; ages...

This paper comprises two studies which address the validity of the Portuguese adaptation of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale .76, GSS1. In study 1, the means and standard deviations for the suggestibility results of a sample of Portuguese inmates (N=40, Mage=37.5years, SD=8.1) were compared to those of a sample of Icelandic inmates (Gudjonsson,...

This study addresses the relationship between personality styles measured with the Portuguese adaptation of the Millon Index of Personality Styles Revised – MIPS-R and interrogative suggestibility assessed by the Portuguese adaptation of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale – GSS1. Hypotheses predicted individual differences in suggestibility and th...

In study 1 (n = 51, Mage = 21.4 years, SD = 5.7), the validity of the Portuguese adaptation of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales (Pires, 2011) was shown through the comparison of means of the original (Gudjonsson, 1997) and the translated scales and the analysis of the correlations between the GSS1 and GSS2 scores. The relationships between inte...

Previous studies have shown that color increases the production of responses to Rorschach in adults but not in children. This increase is observed beginning from 15-16 years old. This developmental data, obtained from Portuguese children and young individuals, led the authors to verify whether this property of color is innate or conditioned by neur...

Estudos anteriores revelaram que a cor aumenta a produção de respostas ao Rorschach nos adultos mas não nas crianças e que esse aumento se observa a partir dos 15-16 anos. Este dado desenvolvimental, obtido a partir de crianças e jovens portugueses, levou os autores a verificar se esta propriedade da cor é inata ou condicionada pelo desenvolvimento...

The central purpose of this work is to examine to what extent Form Quality (FQ) scoring of Rorschach responses, using Exner's (2003) Table A, is the reason for lower FQ to often be found in normative data outside the United States. The Rorschach protocols of 180 Portuguese boys and girls between 6 and 10 years of age were codified with respect to F...

Previous studies have shown that, while color has the property to increase the production of responses to the Rorschach, such an effect is not present in children’s protocols. Based on a review of the literature, the author highlights the characteristic of high reactive demand of the subject to color stimulus and traces its evolution to the preoper...

Objective: To study the psychometric properties of the ten item Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10), in non-patient and patient samples of the Portuguese population. Sample: Five samples of healthy persons (n = 762), and five samples of patients with physical chronic disease or anxiety disorder (n = 201). Measurements: Social-demographic data, smoki...

This study presents a synthesis of results from a research on the effect of color on the production of responses to the Rorschach Inkblot Method. Five age groups -5/6, 9/10, 11/12, 15/16 and 17/20 years-old-were examined with the standard and an achromatic version of Rorschach or of just Cards I, VIII, IX and X, to find a reason for why color does...

This study presents a synthesis of results from a research on the effect of color on the production of responses to the Rorschach Inkblot Method. Five age groups -5/6, 9/10, 11/12, 15/16 and 17/20 years-old- were examined with the standard and an achromatic version of Rorschach or of just Cards I, VIII, IX and X, to find a reason for why color does...

The effect of color in the production of responses to the Rorschach in non-consulting children. A genetic study In a previous study using the Rorschach method, it was shown that a group of 9-year-old children did not increase their mean number of responses to the VIII, IX and X chromatic cards, in comparison to an achromatic version of those same c...

Eighteen examiners, well trained in the Comprehensive System (CS; Exner, 20036. Exner , J. E. 2003. The Rorschach: A comprehensive system: Vol. 1. Basic foundations and principles of interpretation, , 4th ed., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. View all references), administered the Rorschach to 357 Portuguese children, in the first through fifth grades, attendi...

A Rorschach Form Quality Table was developed from a sample of Portuguese school children of both sexes and 6 to 10 years of age. The authors present their analysis aiming at two main objectives:1) to determine to what extent differences between Portuguese FQ Table and its equivalent American one are important; 2) will it be worthwhile to develop a...

From a broad perspective of psychocardiology, our aim is to give an overview of the role that psychosocial risk factors play in coronary artery disease. A review of the literature was made based on a systematic search of four databases: EBSCO, Proquest Psychology, Proquest Health and PubMed. In sample 1, two dependent (Coronary and Myocardial) and...

It is the purpose of the study to determine if there are significant differences between the kinds of expression of object relations on the Rorschach of two groups of heroin addicts and alcoholics. Urist's Mutuality of Autonomy (MOA) Scale was used for assessment. Three levels of object relations were reached by redicing the seven MOA scores, corre...

This study tested the effect of color on the productivity on Card X of the Rorschach in a sample of adolescents and young adults as well as in a sample of children, using a chromatic and an achromatic series of Rorschach cards. Results confirmed a significant increase in the number of responses on that card–as an effect of color, not of its broken...

A partir da análise dos dados normativos de uma amostra de 60 crianças portuguesas, 30 de cada sexo, de 10 anos de idade, vivendo na cidade de Lisboa, os autores procedem ao exame de um certo número de variáveis cujos valores médios ou frequência de ocorrência se afastam, de modo acentuado, de idênticos dados obtidos por Exner e Weiner, nos EUA. O...

Previous studies have drawn attention to the occurrence of important differences between the mean scores of some Rorschach variables in Portuguese samples and the normative data published by Exner. The present paper shows the evolution in the scores of 13 Rorschach variables, during the first four school years, from protocols of a sample of 22 chil...

The article presents a broad overview on the teaching, study, and research on projective methods in Portugal. The most important thing accomplished in the last two decades has been finding a respected place in psychological practice and research. The teaching of projective methods has found much support and is expected to lead to post-graduate cour...

In a previous study using the Rorschach method, it was shown that a group of 9-years-old children do not increase their number of responses to VIII, IX and X chromatic cards, in contrast with a group of young adults whose number do increase. In the current study, two new groups of children of both sexes were tested, one ageing 5 to 6-years-old, the...

This study is included in another larger one on Rorschach normative data with 376 Portuguese children, of both sex, aged 6 to 10 years old. It focuses on the analysis of results of variables forming the cluster of Information Processing as follows: W, D, Dd, S, DQ+, DQo, DQv, DQv/+, Zf, Zd. This is a first formulation of the problem using Rorschach...

Objectivos: Partindo de um conceito alargado de Psicocardiologia, pretende-se colocar em perspectiva o papel dos factores psicossociais no risco da doença das artérias coronárias. Métodos: Revisão da literatura com base na análise sistemática de quatro bases de dados – EBSCO, Proquest Psychology, Proquest Health e PubMed. Na amostra 1, criaram-se d...

La escala de Disimulación de Gough (DS), inicialmente compuesta por 74 ítems se elaboró para diferenciar a un grupo de personas neuróticas, de grupos de estudiantes y profesionales psicólogos instruidos para simular neurosis contestando al MMPI. Dada que la escala, y que algunos ítems podrían ser significativos de extrema patología, posteriormente...