TAT Results...

For the assesment of the needs....

The papers (31) were scrutinised and only those which had at least 10 stories were considered...

18 people had taken it seriously and given their stories to each of the picture shown to them, the stories by others were not comprehendable...


The details of them are ( Sequence is No, Name, Need for affliation, Need for Power, Need for Achievement)


The interpretation is (e.g) G Satish Kumar - 8 - 1 - 2 . The need for affliation is 8 while for power is 1 and achievement is 2. The dominant need in this individual is for affliation rather than power or achievement.


1. G Satish Kumar - 8 - 1 - 2 .

2. Mirnal K Borah - 6 - 0 - 5 .

3. Suraj S - 5 - 1 - 4 . (One answer was Blank)

4. Rajshekar - 3 - 1 - 7 .

5. Akilan P - 4 - 5 - 2 .

6. Vipin Jose - 3 - 2 - 6 .

7. Sivashankaran S - 6 - 0 - 5 .

8. Minto S - 10 - 0 - 1 .

9. Rajesh S - 5 - 1 - 5 .

10. Muthukumar S - 2 - 5 - 3 . (One answer was Blank)

11. Sridhar N - 4 - 0 - 7 .

12. Chinthanai Selvan - 9 - 1 - 1 .

13. Vimal V - 8 - 0 - 3 .

14. Velmurugan M - 9 - 0 - 2 . (One answer was Blank)

15. Louie Rathina Doss - 1 - 3 - 6 . (One answer was Blank)

16. Mugunthan K - 1 - 4 - 6 .

17. Sivaramakrishnan S - 10 - 0 - 1 . (One answer was Blank)

18. Kirubalan R - 7 - 0 - 4 .


Some descriptions of the pics

Pic 1.

Most of the people saw this pic as a boy who did not like music, or composed music (ach). Some felt it as a person who dislikes to do his homework, daydreamer (aff)
Pic 2.

The story here was mostly on family orientation of dad mom and daughter (affliation). Some saw it on a different perspective as a women who wants to change the conditions of the poor by her studies (achievement)
Pic 3.

Most of them had said a story of new drug or new invention (ach). Yet a few had brought in the element of love (Aff). Some had a story of supervision and order (Pow).
Pic 4.

Most had the story of two related people like grandson and grandmother, (aff), very few had reflected the achievement and power.
Pic 5.

This was more on the story of the murder and repentment after that, also infedility of husband and wife, sucide (aff), few had a story on the achnone on power
Pic 6.

Most of the story was on reaching the height... (ach) and also on the top of all (pow) ... Some had identified monkey (aff)
Pic 7.

Here the incapacitance of the man and the woman crying for it, the father was sick so the daughter was crying (aff) dominated. none on power and
achievement.
Pic 8.

Most was on the bullet removal by docs. Some on murder ... mostly on affliation... some had deviated in the same theme and used words like invention (ach) and leader (pow).
Pic 9.

Man in the graveyard... here again the words like searching for friends, relatives tombstone dominated(aff). Some have given words of achievement and power
Pic 10 & 11.

These were abstract pics so the words used to define them were used to identify the needs...


Taking this as a sample for the class the scoring for the various needs were


n Affliation - 97.------------- 5.4 (10 people out of 18)

n Power - 24.----------------1.3 ( 2 people out of 18)

n Achievement - 70.--------- 3.8 ( 6 people out of 18)


This results show that the affiliation need is dominated where as the achivement need had to top the list.