TARDIVO, Leila S.C. (1992) – Teste de Apercepção Infantil com Figuras de Animais (CAT-A) e Teste das Fábulas de Düss: estudos normativos e aplicações no contexto das técnicas projetivas. [Children Apperception Test with Animal Figures (CAT-A) and Düss Fables Test: normative studies and applications in the context of projective techniques]. Doctoral Thesis. 2 vols. São Paulo (SP), Instituto de Psicologia da USP pp. 423-460.
The main purpose of this study was to establish the norms for the evaluation of the following Projective Techniques: The Children’s Apperception Test with Animal Figures (CAT-A) and the Düss Fables Test in the population of the city of São Paulo. The sample was composed of 128 subjects from 5 to 8 years old, male and female, proceeding from middle class families with normal intelligence. The subjects were submitted to individual testing on both tests. For the two techniques, the author proposed an evaluation on the aspects of the contents. For such, references of analysis were created, which were made up of traits or specific categories for each of the ten plates of the CAT-A and for the ten stories of the Düss Test. The performance of the sample by age and sex was analyzed in each of the categories, and the typical answers for the population tested, were verified. In the CAT-A the typical answers for the pictures were: 1 – references to the mother figure; 2, 5 e 6 – perception of the triangular oedipal situation (being playful in nº 2 and helplessness in nºs 5 and 6 ); 3 hostility link with the father figure; 4 – leisure and good relation with the mother figure; 7 – a persecutory figure that attacks like a male; 8 – a relation of acceptance with the parental figure (mother or father); 9 – reaction of independence and growth and in 10 – various answers. The author also writes a study of some of the formal aspects of the answers. In the Düss Test the most frequent answers for each fable were: 1 – reactions of independence and autonomy; 2 – acceptance of the parents relationship; 3 -acceptance of the fraternal figure and a depressive experience of ablactation; 4 – father figure; 5 – fear of real and external objects; 6 – presence of anguish linked to the castration complex or getting over it; 7 – absence of possessive character; 8 – anguished experience of the oedipal complex; 9 – good news and 10 – various answers.
The author discusses the performance of the sample between the two techniques and includes the comparison of both with the Drawing-and-Story Procedure(D-E), an instrument introduced by Trinca and studied previously. He found that there was coherence between the three techniques, but it is pointed out that in the fables the conscious aspects are more present than in the other two. The D-E showed to be a synthetic tool, that privileges the observation of the set of units, and not of each one in separate, as CAT – A and the Düss Test do.