ABSTRACT
Picture-story methods intended for cross-cultural assessment should meet some of the following requirements according to Dana (1993): culturally relevant stimuli, scoring categories that reflect culturally important variables, availability of normative data, contextual grounding of interpretations, and culturally relevant personality theory. Only the first requirement of culturally relevant stimuli has historically had an impact in the TAT literature by the creation of culture-specific sets of cards (incidentally, according to Teglasi, 1993, research findings have revealed that these adaptations do not necessarily elicit richer stories than the traditional TAT cards). Regarding the other requirements, a lack of consensus on any TAT scoring system (Dana, 1993; Vane 1981) remains the major difficulty for using picture-story methods cross-culturally in a systematic and cumulative way.
