Hands Test
Hands Test
Hands Test
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 10thcard is blank
Cards are presented one at a time
Examinee projects by telling what the hand is doing
Responses are recorded verbatim
Initial response time per card and other relevant
behavior is also noted
Hand Test contain both quantitative and qualitative
categories
Simple and easy to administer
DEVELOPMENT
OF HAND TEST
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
behavior.
Responses to hands in ambiguous poses indicate
these hierarchical and diagnostically useful scheme.
USE OF
HAND TEST
Hand Test measures overt behavior
The research has shown that Hand Testscores
arerelatedtoactingout behavior among juvenile
delinquents
Hand Test can also measure acting-out behavior among
disruptive students, adult prisoners, schizophrenics,
mental retardates, and alcoholics
The Hand Test can also predict workshop performance of
mentally retarded subjects, occupational orientation in
normal populations, and withdrawal from reality in
brain-injured versus non-brain-injured samples
LIMITATIONS
OF HAND TEST
This test cannot be used alone as it does not provide
complete and concrete diagnosis
Quantitative Categories
Qualitative Categories
Interpersonal (INT)
Ambivalent (AMB)
Affection (AFF)
Automatic Phrase (AUT)
Dependence(DEP)
Communication (COM) Cylindrical (CYN)
Exhibition (EXH) Denial (DEN)
Direction (DIR) Emotion (EMO)
Aggression (AGG) Gross (GRO)
Hiding (HID)
Qualitative Categories
Immature (IMA)
Quantitative Categories
Impotent (IMP)
Environmental (ENV)
Inanimate (INA)
Acquisition (ACQ)
Active (ACT) Movement (MOV)
Passive (PAS) Oral (ORA)
Maladjustive (MAL) Perplexity (PER)
Tension (TEN) Sensual (SEN)
Crippled (CRI) Sexual (SEX)
Fear (FEAR) Original (O)
Withdrawal (WITH) Repetition (RPT)
Description (DES)
Bizarre (BIZ)
Failure (FAIL)
DESCRIPTION OF
SCORING CATEGORIES
A. Descriptive
B. Projective
C. Objective
D. Adjective
2. How many stimulus material do Hand
Test have?
A. 8 unbound cards
B. 9unbound cards
C. 10 unbound cards
D. 11 unbound cards
3. The development of Hands Test
began in year _____.
A. 1920s
B. 1930s
C. 1940s
D. 1950s
4. Displaying oneself in order to
approve other.
A. Exhibition
B. Affection
C. Aggression
D. Direction
5. Dominating, directing or influencing
activities of others.
A. Exhibition
B. Affection
C. Aggression
D. Direction
6. It involves giving of pain.
A. Exhibition
B. Affection
C. Direction
D.Aggression
7. It involves pleasure or friendly
feeling.
A. Exhibition
B. Direction
C. Affection
D. Aggression
8. Represent generalized attitude
towards the impersonal world.
A. Environmental Response
B. Maladjustive Response
C. Withdrawal Response
D. Interpersonal Response
9. Responses of which individual is
partially aware, in carrying out various
actions due to experienced inner weakness.
A. Environmental Response
B. Maladjustive Response
C. Withdrawal Response
D. Interpersonal Response
10. This response occur when hesitation or
uncertainly is voiced about imparted action
tendencies.
A. Ambivalent
B. Gross
C. Cylindrical
D. Denial
11. In this response, the reaction is
stronger than in ambivalence response and
is definitely avoided by the examinee.
A. Ambivalent
B. Gross
C. Cylindrical
D. Denial
12. In this response, it indicates an
aggressive act which is uncontrolled and
completely unsocialized.
A. Ambivalent
B. Gross
C. Cylindrical
D. Denial
13. The hand is perceived as holding,
manipulating or using an object.
A. Ambivalent
B. Gross
C. Cylindrical
D. Denial
14. It does not see the hand as belonging to
live human being.
A. Perplexity
B. Inanimate
C. Sensual
D. Movement
15. It specifies random, unproductive
activity.
A. Perplexity
B. Inanimate
C. Sensual
D. Movement
16. The hand is seen as deriving pleasure
from feeling or touching people or objects.
A. Perplexity
B. Inanimate
C. Sensual
D. Movement
17. The stimuli are different and that he or
she is puzzled.
A. Perplexity
B. Inanimate
C. Sensual
D. Movement
18. Perceives hand as relating to children
or animals.
A. Sexual
B. Impotent
C. Original
D. Immature
19. Expressed inability on examinees part
to respond to or figure out the test stimuli.
A. Sexual
B. Impotent
C. Original
D. Immature
20. Hand is directly engaged in sexual
activity.
A. Sexual
B. Impotent
C. Original
D. Immature