Qualitative Analysis

Table 1

Descriptive level, interpretive level and diagnostic level interpretation of stories

Story 1

Descriptive level interpretive level Diagnostic level

A boy has a violin but he doesn’t if one is a young male, gifted a Need for achievement,

Know how to play it. He gets violin by his parents, one love to need for construction,

Worried. He is determined to find play violin. If one breaks his violin significant conflict

A solution and arranged a teacher one should rebuild it, so that he between achievement

Who help him in playing the violin? Won’t disappoint his parents. And loss.

Story 2

Descriptive level interpretive level Diagnostic level

A young adult has to work if an adult male, loses one of his Needs for acquisition,

On afar to earn for his parents, then one would be compliant need for achievement,

Widow mother and sister and with the needs of their family, one can need for deference.

Left his studies. His sister compromises his studies; earn bread for environment is tough

Continuous her education and his family. One wills success in future. Hard, anxiety and l

Help his brother. At the end loss of love. Conflict

They get success. Between achievement.

Story 3

Descriptive level interpretive level Diagnostic level

A young girl feels sad and if one adult female belongs to Oral needs. Need for

Alone because his parents left rich family, there is a basement. Environment is

She and she are alone now. Her opportunities that one can be captivating. Significant

Left her studies and now she is indulged in loneliness and destroy conflict between ID and
Alone at home. She is thinking her life. Family and friends superego (to become

Of suicide but suddenly he can leave the person, then he will good human).

Become determined to correct get lonely and think of suicide. Rationalized is used.

Her life.

Story 4

Descriptive level interpretive level Diagnostic level

An adult male after marriage if one is the only son of his Need for achievement, need for

Gives most of his time to his parents, one would be affiliation, need for deference,

Mother. Her wife, then, fills obedient to them. If he gets need for rejection, environment is

Hates in his husband for his married, one would not take exploiting. Conflict between need

Parents. His mother makes side of his wife. Instead, one for affiliation and need for

He understands the truth. Would be obedient to his rejection. Anxiety of loss of

The adult male then leaves mother. A person can disown parents. Isolation as defense

His wife, because he thinks his wife. Mechanism is used.

Nothing IA more important

Then parents.

Story 5

Descriptive level interpretive level Diagnostic level

A young boy lives with his if a person’s mother works Need for achievement, need for

Mother in a small house, hard for the education of his acquisition. Environment is

Because his father got died child, then one would pay-off succor ant. Conflict between

In a car accident. His mother his mother by working hard achievement loss anxiety of

Work hard for his son to and establishing a good career. Deprivation and helpless.

Continue his education. The One would be humble sublimation is used.

Young boy is now a business throughout his life.

Man, he and his mother are

Remembering the old hard

Times. The one thing which is

Not changed is their

Humbleness.

Story 6

Descriptive level interpretive level diagnostic level

A young girl belong to a If one belongs to a rich family, Need for play, need for

Rich family, her every that one is stubborn about aggression, environment is

Demand is fulfilled by her the care of her parents. One hostile. Conflict between play

Parents. Her father go away would not pay attention Dominance. Anxiety of

For a business trip and she towards her mother’s advice deprivation.

Misses him, her mother trying and waste her time by playing Denial is used.

To console her that he will with doll and miss her father

Come soon. And then she

Understand the situation.

Story 7

Descriptive level interpretive level Diagnostic level

A young boy studies in if one is passed through a Need for achievement.

School on his way he met injured person, He plays for Environment is hostile.

A person who is injured in one’s health if one gets injured conflict between need for

An accident, he admits him in caught in an accident. Admitted achievement and press of

Hospital. He was worried to hospital for treatment. Affliction. Anxiety of physical

About his life but then harm and injury.

Operation is successful and

That person is alive. He felt

Happy on his act.

Story 8

Descriptive level interpretive level Diagnostic level

Two young are on a road if one goes for meet to a Need for harm avoidance, need for

One is moving towards a boy, if one gets jealous as affiliation. Conflict between

Boy and the other one who one’s also like that particular physical injury and luck.

Is seeing her getting jealous boy and gets jealous for her. Affiliation luck, physical danger

She also like that boy with one wouldn’t get jealous on Anxiety of harm.

Whom other girl going one’s fate. Intellectualization is used.

Towards That guy. She is

Feeling jealous with that

Girl because she is Going to

Meet that person.

Story 9

Descriptive level interpretive level Diagnostic level

A young man live happily if one’s wife gets sick, Need for affiliation and need for

With her wife, but one day if one have no resources nurturance.

He knows that his wife get for her treatment. One work Environment is depriving, striving,

Serious disease. After some hard for wife but he can’t Anxiety of lack and loss of love.

Times she passed away and save her life, one passed Intellectualization is used.

Then he gets sad and felt away

Helpless. He got depressed

On his wife death.

Story 10
Descriptive level interpretive level Diagnostic level

An adult lady live with her If one is live happily but Need for affiliation and need for

Husband but her husband her husband got died. They rejection, need for lack and loss

Died in an accident. She has had a daughter and one Environment is hostile.

A daughter. She loved her love her so much, because conflict between Affiliation and

Very much. She felt that her she is the only source of joy rejection. Anxiety of lack and
loss

Daughter is a source of joy for her. Displacement and projection is

For her. Her child gets evident as defense mechanism.

Attached to her mother.

Discussion

The stories are interpreted on the basis of main theme of the story, main hero,
needs of the hero, significant conflicts, nature of anxiety, main defense mechanism used by the
hero, conception of the environment, relationship with significant figures, adequacy of the hero
and intelligence.

While analyzing stories for the participants, it was seen that the participant has presented hero
as a male figure and participant presented hero to have positive traits as obedient to parents,
striving for success, care for his siblings, trying to be humble while having everything.

The main theme of the stories shows that in most of the stories the participant presented hero
as a male figures and participant hero as rich. Then, a sudden change and loss of his father
occurs, after that he presented hero as poor, miserable who is striving for achieving his status
back as reflected in stories 2,3BM,6BM,7GF and 10. This can be related to his history as his
father business was well settled and then he faces a loss. As the participant is only son of his
parents, he was brought up with great care. But now he is striving for his goal of becoming a
doctor.

The participant might have a poor body image as in story 7 he referred the hero as being sick
and in story 1 he shows his violin as broken.

The participants show that hero has great attachment and affection for his parental figures in
the stories 1, 2, 4 and 6BM. The upbringing background suggest that the participant’s parents are
authoritative that take child feelings into consideration. Ranjbarrizi (2017), suggest that parent-
child attachment has a mediating effect on the relationship between authoritarian parenting and
grade and no effect on permissive parenting style and grades. As the participant parents has
authoritative parenting style and the participant is a high achiever also, this need for
achievement.

Need for acquisition is shown in the form that he want to acquire material possessions like
before and don’t feel like deprived as he feels one.

The participant is in that stage of life where most of teens require the need to be associate
with someone or have a fantasy. Maybe this reason seems to involve the need of affiliation for
the participant is in the stage of life where most of teens as he refers the hero in story 4, 9 and 10.

The participant’s need of succorance is shown by the fact that the participant introduced
parents in most stories to care for the hero or fulfilling his demands. As depict in the story 1, 2, 3,
4, 5 and 6 the participant has introduced parental figures mostly mother, as he is more attached to
his mother and very sensitive about his significant relationship.

The participant seems to have anger tantrums as he told that he feels like throwing objects
when history is tapped. This shows his need of aggression. Her anger usually in form of anger
out by showing a throwing objects away. Research suggest that one family level stressor that
may put chiller and adolescents at increased risk for the developed of aggressive or antisocial
behaviors is economic hardships employment, and negative economic events and pressure.

In story 6, the participant wants to play but the press of dominance creates a conflict between
them. In story 7 he wants to study hard but at the same time caught in an accident creates a press
of affiliation on the need of achievement. In story 8, the main conflict is between the press of
physical danger and the need for harm avoidance. The other conflict is between the need of
socialization and lack of human support. The other conflict is between the need of associating
with opposite gender and but at the same time fears the loss of significant relationship. In story
10, the main conflict in the story was the aggression on the wife a being guilty for his aggression
on wife

The participant has average adequacy, in most stories the outcome of his adequacy was
quite optimistic, happy and realistic. His background information also supports that his coping
skills are adequate. Whenever there is a stressful situation his reality testing in intact.

The participant seems to have average intelligence although he is a high achiever. Diary,
strand, smith & Fernandez (2007) suggested that there is a high correlation between intelligence
and educational achievement.

Conclusion

It can be conclude that the main needs and drives of the participants are of
achievement, affiliation and acquisition. The main fears and the conflicts the subject projected
were achievement and loss, need of affiliation and need of rejection, need of acquisition and
press of lack. The most common defenses used by the subject were intellectualization,
projection, isolation and denial and sublimation. The stories depict well integrated ego strength
of the subject. His ego functions show that his reality testing, judgment, object relation an
thought process fall in normal range. The plot of stories shows structured and complete thought
processes.

Limitations and Suggestions

• The results cannot be the true representation of the participant as the interpretation was
subjective on the part of examiner.
• The examiner was inexperienced an untrained.
• TAT has poor psychometric properties as its validity and reliability is low.
• Another projective test should be one on participant to get pure interpretation of
participant’s personality.