Indian Adaptation of The Thematic Appreciation Test
Indian Adaptation of The Thematic Appreciation Test
Indian Adaptation of The Thematic Appreciation Test
Indian adaptation of TAT was developed by Dr Uma Chowdhary in the year 1960 continuing
from the procedures drawn by McClelland by using the TAT cards of Murray. The pictures
used in the test have been modified to suit the Indian population which consists of a set of 14
cards. Out of these 14 cards, 12 cards were adapted from the original TAT and additional 2
cards were added which seemed to represent themes important to the Indian culture. The 2
extra cards namely, joint family and religious fantasy were not present in the original TAT.
The difference is present only in the stimuli as it depicts the Indian characters wearing
traditional Indian clothes but the situations are similar to the original cards. An example of
this would be, in the 1st card ‘Tanpura’ an Indian stringed instrument is substituted for a
violin. The responses of Indian TAT were found to be congruent with the responses of 260
individuals on Rorschach test and TAT results (Bhattacharya & Hirisave, 2015).
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