ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with basic methodology rather than theory or technique. The methods of analysing Rep Test protocol which we have suggested in the preceding chapter rely heavily upon one’s interpretation of the client’s language. One may construct a Grid Form of the Rep Test by listing role titles along one axis and letting the client enter his personal constructs along the other. Lyle has proposed that the pole which represents the similarity of the two ‘like’ figures be called the emergent pole and the contrasting pole be called the implicit pole. The Repertory Grid is an approach to relationships which has many possible applications. The protocols analysed by Levy and Dugan involved fifteen sorts, hence required the computation of 105 correlation coefficients from each protocol before factor analysis could be begun. Current personality theories place varying emphasis upon such factorial representations as ‘the self’, ‘father figure’, ‘sex role’, ‘authority figure’, and so on.
