Columbus test
The Columbus test is a projective test procedure from the field of child and adolescent psychiatry . Here, the test person is shown 24 images, about which questions are then asked. The test is used to help in the analysis and investigation of developmental processes in children between the ages of 5 and 18 years.
The first version of the test was made in 1969. Since then it has been revised and refined several times. Similar projective methods are the Wartegg character test , the Schweinchen-Schwarzfuß test and the TAT ( Thematic Perception Test ).
Test quality criteria for projective tests in general
It is claimed that the reliability and validity of the projective methods are often insufficient. However, some procedures (e.g. the TAT) in their original version do not provide for the results to be formulated in numbers. In some cases, the results are rather formulated in words. Since it is not possible to calculate reliability and validity without numbers, it should therefore always be taken into account that a lot of this information relates to evaluation methods that were developed later in order to be able to express the linguistically formulated result of a projective test in numbers. Since different methods were often developed for the same test, it must always be taken into account which evaluation method is involved. The reliability and validity of the various evaluation methods differ considerably in some cases. Nevertheless, these "free" test procedures, carefully interpreted, allow an insight into unconscious thought processes.
Individual evidence
- ^ Langeveld, MJ: The Columbus-picture analysis of growth towards maturity. Karger, Basel 1969