ABSTRACT
From the inception of cross-cultural investigations using projective/narrative tests in the 1940s, it was observed that the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) (Murray, 1943) stimuli had questionable relevance to individuals of different cultures; hence, culturally sensitive TAT stimuli were developed to study such groups as Mexican Indians, Ojibwa Indians, Southwest Africans, and South Pacific Micronesians (Henry, 1955). However, such early
efforts to provide a culture-specific and sensitive interpretive TAT framework have not been eagerly pursued by psychometricians (Dana, 1986a). More recently, the work of Monopoli (1984, cited in Dana, 1986a) indicated that culture-specific stimuli were necessary for personality assessment of unacculturated Hopi and Zuni Indians, but the Murray TAT was more useful with acculturated individuals. Avila-Espada (1986) found that, following the development of an objective scoring system and norms, the standard TAT can be a clinically useful instrument for personality assessment of European Spaniards.
