ABSTRACT
The development of early projective techniques was strongly influenced by the psychoanalytic movement. According to Rabin, clinical psychologists, pre-1930, had few assessment tools. Essentially, the clinicians of this era mainly used quantitative indices, intelligence quotients, percentiles on introversion or dominance scales, and similar pieces of nomothetic information. The emergence of sport psychology as a specific discipline has largely coincided with an era dominated by objective testing. Similar to mainstream psychologists, some sport psychology practitioners use various tests and techniques to assess personality traits, but they are all essentially objective/self-report. The problem with most projective tests is always the same; they allow the interpreter to project as much as the client. Projective tests have been a matter of concern to psychometricians because they generally do not conform to the usual methods of establishing reliability and validity.
