Abstract
Summary To explore what aspect of personality the TAT taps, the TAT responses of 122 healthy, white adults were compared with their scores on the Cattell Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire. In Part I major dimensions of the stories were compared with inventory scores. The number of significant correlations were less than expected by chance. In Part II a cross-validation procedure was used with test signs. Half the cases were used to find story characteristics that coincided with an inventory trait score. When these were checked for presence in the second half of the cases, signs held up for the traits of Introversion, Emotional Maturity, Surgency, and Social Sophistication. In Part III inventory scores were predicted from the global study of the TATs of thirty cases, with better than chance success. The Happy-Sad dimension repeatedly had the best inter-test congruence. Intensive case analysis indicated that the TAT shifted in “depth” so that faulty correlations occurred with shallow, conventional stories or overly deep, “ego alien” stories.
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