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Abstract

Hand Test is a projective test which has been used in west in several studies to assess various aspects of personality and behaviour. A major criticism on projective tests is that their scoring depends a good deal on subjective judgement of scorer. Two studies (Maloney & Wagner 1979; Oswald & Loftus, 1967) have ascertained scorer reliability of Hand Test. In the first study the examinees were enrolled in a state University (mean age 20.06, SD 1.79). Two judges, a well trained graduate student and author of the test. were involved as scorers. The over all agreement was 89.34%. Spearman Correlation for quantitative sub-categories and combined categories ranged from 0.71 to 1.00. The median correlation was .91. Second study was carried out in South Australia on 114 normal population of boys between 13-18 years of age. Two judges, one working in child guidance clinic and the other in social welfare department scored the protocols independently. The percentage agreement was 73%. The present study was carried out in Pakistan to see agreement between three scorers on scoring the responses on Hand Test.