For a comprehensive review of the SCORS rating system see Stein and Slavin-Mulford (2018)
SCORS-G research
Ablon, J.S., Levy, R.A., & Katzenstein, T. (2006). Beyond Brand Names of Psychotherapy: Identifying Empirically Supported Change Processes. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 43(2), 216-231.
Adams, B.E., Porcerelli J.H., Abell, S. & Huprich, S.K. (2021). Malevolent object relations: A multimethod study of female survivors of childhood abuse. Personality and Mental Health, DOI=10.1002/pmh.1512.
Auletta, A., Cupellaro, S., Abbate, L., Aiello, E., Cornacchia, P., Norcia, C. & Sogos, C. (2018). SCORS-G and Card Pull Effect of TAT Stories: A Study with a Non-clinical Sample of Children. Assessment, DOI: 10.1177/1073191118781014.
Ackerman, S., Clemence, A., Weatherill, R., & Hilsenroth, M. (1999). Use of the TAT in the Assessment of DSM-IV Cluster B Personality Disorders. Journal of Personality Assessment, 73, 422-448.
Ackerman, S., Hilsenroth, M., Clemence, A., Weatherill, R., & Fowler, C. (2000). The Effects of Social Cognition and Object Representation on Psychotherapy Continuation. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 64, 386-408.
Ackerman, S., Hilsenroth, M., Clemence, A., Weatherill, R., & Fowler, C. (2001). Convergent Validity of Rorschach and TAT Scales of Object Relations. Journal of Personality Assessment, 77(2), 295-306.
Bambery, M. & Porcerelli, J. (2006). Psychodynamic therapy for Oppositional Defiant Disorder: Changes in personality, object relations, and adaptive function after six months of treatment. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 54(4), 1334-1339.
Bénony, H., Vatageot, S., Lignier, B., Bioy, A., Marnier, J. P., & Viodé, C. (2020). L’Échelle de Relation d’Objet et de Cognition Sociale de Westen: résultats préliminaires sur une population française d’adolescentes suicidantes hospitalisées. L'Évolution Psychiatrique, 85(3), 329-348.
Bombel, G., Mihura, J., & Meyer, G. (2009). An Examination of the Construct Validity of the Rorschach Mutuality of Autonomy (MOA) Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91 (3) 227-237.
Bram, A.D. (2014). Object Relations, Interpersonal Functioning, and Health in a nonclinical sample: Construct Validation and Norms for the TAT SCORS-G. Psychoanalytic Psychology DOI: 10.1037/a0036286.
Bouvet, C., Prime, C., Camart N., Fouques, D., & Zebdi, R. (2020). Discriminant Validity (Clinical vs Non Clinical) of The French Version of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale, French Version, for TAT Narratives. Revue québécoise de psychologie, 41(1), 45-60. DOI: 10.7202/1070662ar
Cain, L. & Hilsenroth, M.J (2020). Examining the relationship between object relations and interpersonal distress in a clinical sample. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, DOI=10.1002/cpp.2460.
Calabrese, M., Farber, B., & Westen, D. (2005). The Relationship of Adult Attachment Constructs to Object Relational Patterns of Representing Self and Others. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 33(3), 513-530.
Callahan, K., Price, J., & Hilsenroth, M. (2003). Psychological Assessment of Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse within a Naturalistic Clinical Sample. Journal of Personality Assessment, 80, 174-185.
Clemence, J.A. & Lewis, K. (2018). Flexibility and rigidity in object relational functioning: Assessing change in suicidal ideation and global psychiatric functioning using the SCORS–G, Journal of Personality Assessment, 100(2), 135-144.
Coleman, S. G., Ravula, H. P., Stein, M. B., Coleman, J. J., Wilcox, M. M., & Slavin-Mulford, J. (2023). The impact of different Thematic Apperception Test administration methods on narrative length and story richness as measured by the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method (SCORS-G). Journal of Personality Assessment. 10.1080/00223891.2023.2286459.
Conway, F., Oster, M., & McCarthy, J. (2010). Exploring Object Relations in hospitalized children with caregiver loss. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 9 (2-3), 108-117.
Conway, F., Lyon, S., & McCarthy, J. (2014). Object Relations of Hospitalized Adolescents Engaged in Nonsuicidal Self-Injurious Behaviors. Adolescent Psychotherapy 13(2), 110-121.
DeFife, J.A., Goldberg, M., &Westen, D. (2013). Dimensional Assessment of Self and Interpersonal Functioning in Adolescents: Implications for DSM-5’s General Definition of Personality Disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 27, 1-13.
Desatnik, A., Bel-Bahar, T., Taylor, L., Nolte, T., Crowley, M. J., Fonagy, P., & Fearon, P. (2021). Emotion regulation in adolescents: Influences of internal representations of relationships–An ERP study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 160, 1-9.
Diener, M. J., &Hilsenroth, M.J. (2004). Multimethod Validity of the SWAP-200 Dysphoric Q-factor. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 192(7), 479-486.
Eudell-Simmons, E., Stein, M., DeFife, J. & Hilsenroth, M. (2005). Reliability and Validity of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (SCORS) in the Assessment of Dream Narratives. Journal of Personality Assessment, 85, 325-333.
Fowler, J.C., Ackerman, S.J., Speanburg, S., Bailey, A., Blagys, M., & Conklin, A.C. (2004). Personality and Symptom Change in Treatment-Refractory Inpatients: Evaluation of the Phase Model of Change Using Rorschach, TAT, and DSM-IV Axis V. Journal of Personality Assessment, 83(3), 306-322.
Fowler, J.C., & DeFife, J.A. (2012). Quality of Object Representations Related to Service Utilization in a Long-Term Residential Treatment Center. Psychotherapy, 49(3), 418-422.
Gagnon, J. & Daelman, S. (2011). An Empirical Study of the Psychodynamics of Borderline Impulsivity. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 28(3), 341-362.
Gagnon, J., Leblanc, J-S, & St-Amand, J. (2015). Relationship between two dimensions of object relations and group psychotherapy attendance rate in Borderline Personality Disorder. Psychology and Psychotherapy, 5(2), http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2161-0487.1000171.
Galtieri, L. R., Cobb, H. R., O'Gorman, E. T., & Kurtz, J. E. (2021). Object relations functioning in a community adult sample: Further normative data for the SCORS-G. Psychoanalytic Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000380
Gamache, D., Diguer, L., Laverdiere, O., & Rousseau, J.-P. (2012). Development of an object relation-based typology of adolescent sex offenders. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 76(4), 329-364.
Garcia, D.J., Waugh, M.H., Skadberg, R.M., Crittenden, E.B., Finn, M.T.M., Schmidt, M.R., & Kurdziel-Adams, G. (2020). Deconstructing Criterion A of the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. http://doi.org/10.1037/per0000431.
Garcia, D. J., Crittenden, E. B., Skadberg, R. M., Finn, M. T. M., Schmidt, M., Kurdziel-Adams, G., & Waugh, M. H. (2021). Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale as level of personality functioning. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 38(3), 185–193. https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000369
Gregory, R.J. & Mustata, G.T. (2012). Magical thinking in narratives of adolescent cutters. Journal of Adolescence, 25, 1045-1051.
Haggerty, G., Forlenza, N., Poland, C., Ray, S., Zodan, J., Mehra, A., Goyal, A., Baity, M.R., Siefert, C.J. Sobin, S., Leite, D., & Sinclair, S.J. (2014). Assessing Overall Functioning with Adolescent Inpatients. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 202 (11), 822-828.
Haggerty, G., Blanchard, M., Baity, M.R., DeFife, J.A., Stein, M.B., Siefert, C.J., Sinclair, S.J., & Zodan, J. (2015). Clinical Validity of a Dimensional Assessment of Self- and Interpersonal Functioning in Adolescent Inpatients. Journal of Personality Assessment, 97(1), 3-12.
Haggerty, G., Stein, M.B, Siefert, C., Zodan, J, Mehra, A., Ogbuli, K., Sangha, J., Habib, M., Sinclair, S.J., & Blais, M.A. (2018). Dimensional measure of self and interpersonal functioning: Comparisons with treatment alliance and readiness for inpatient psychotherapy. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. DOI: 10.1002/cpp.2193
Haggerty, G., Esang, M., Salaheldin, K., & Lima, A. (2020). The relationship between prototype ratings of personality and self and interpersonal functioning with an adolescent inpatient sample. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. DOI=10.1002/cpp.2512
Handelzalts, J.E., Fisher, S., & Naot, R. (2014). Object relations and real life relationships: A cross method assessment, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 55, 160-167.
Handelzalts, J.E., Fisher, S., Sadan, O., & Goldzweig, G. (2016). Object relations, unconscious defences and fear of childbirth, as reflected in maternal-request caesarean section. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2016.1253832
Hawkins, R. C. II. (2022). Measurement of dreams by SCORS and LIWC: Prelude to dreamwork in psychotherapy. Dreaming, 32(1), 52–62. https://doi.org/10.1037/drm0000194
Huprich, S., Porcerelli, J., Binienda, J., Karana, D. & Kamoo, R (2007). Parental Representations, object relations and their relationship to Depressive Personality Disorder and Dysthymia. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 2171-2181.
Josephs, L., Anderson, E., Bernard, A., Fatzer, K., & Streich, J. (2004). Assessing Progress in Analysis Interminable. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 52(4), 1185-1214.
Jowers, C. E., Cain, L. A., Hoffman, Z. T., Perkey, H., Stein, M. B., Widner, S. C., & Slavin-Mulford, J. (2019). The relationship between trainee therapist traits with the use of self-disclosure and immediacy in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, 56(2), 157-169. DOI: 10.1037/pst0000225.
Kara, N. (2019). Predictive power of TAT Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale Global (SCORS-G) to DSM-IV and ICD-10 assessment of personality disorder. (Unpublished master's thesis). Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Aydın (to a burgeoning SCORS-G researcher whose life was taken too soon by the February 6 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake in Turkey).
Kuutmann, K. & Hilsenroth, M.J. (2012). Exploring In-Session Focus on the Patient-Therapist Relationship: Patient Characteristics, Process and Outcome. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 19, 187-202.
Lee, J., Lim, J., & Chang, M. (2018). Validating the Korean Version of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale Using the Thematic Apperception Test. Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 37(4), 540-557. DOI: 10.15842/kjcp.2018.37.4.007.
Lee, J., Lim, J., & Chang, M. (2020). Validating the Korean version of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale in Nonclinical Adolescents. Korean Journal of Counseling, 21(5), 117-144.
Lehmann, M.E. & Hilsenroth, M.J. (2011). Evaluating Psychological Insight in a Clinical Sample Using the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 199 (5), 354-359.
Levy, S.R., Hilsenroth, M.J., & Owen, J.J. (2015). Relationship between Interpretation, Alliance, and Outcome in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 203(6), 418-424.
Lewis, K.C., Meehan, K.B., Cain, N.M., Wong, P.S., Clemence, A.J., Stevens, J., & Tillman, J.G. (2016). Impairments in Object Relations and Chronicity of Suicidal Behavior in Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 30(1), 19-34.
Lewis, K.C. & Ridenour, J. (2019). The Integration of EMA and Single-Occasion Multimethod Assessment Data for a Complex Psychiatric Patient. Assessment. DOI: 10.1177/1073191118825313
Lewis, K.C., Meehan, K.B., Cain, N.M., Wong, P.S., Clemence, A.J., Stevens, J., & Tillman, J.G. (2019). Quality of Internalized Object Representations and Suicidality in Individuals With Anaclitic and Introjective Personality Styles. Journal of Personality Disorders. DOI: 10.1521/pedi_2019_33_435
Lewis, K.C., Ridenour, J.M., Pitman, S., & Roche, M. (2020). Evaluating Stable and Situational Expressions of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder: A Multimethod Experience Sampling Case Study. Journal of Personality Assessment, DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2020.1818572
Lewis, K.C. & Clemence, A.J. (2021). Clinical Use of the Thematic Apperception Test and Other Non-Normed Idiographic Assessment Methods, In J. L. Mihura (EdS.) The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Psychopathology Assessment (2nd ed., pp. C17S1-C17S20). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190092689.013.17
Lim, J., Chang, M., & Lee, J. (2019). The effect of interpersonal stress on emotional experiences and object representations in individuals with borderline personality disorder tendencies. The Korean Journal of Counseling and Psychotherapy, 31(4), 1091-1118.
Maher, H., Sumathi, D., & Winston, C.N. (2014). Object of desire or object of distress? Psychosocial functioning among securely and insecurely attached Indian young adults. Psychoanalytic Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/a0038169.
Mullin, A.S.J. & Hilsenroth, M.J. (2012). Relationship Between Patient Pre-Treatment Object Relations Functioning and Psychodynamic Techniques Early in Treatment. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, DOI: 10.1002/cpp.1826
Mullin, A.S. J., Hilsenroth, M.J., Gold, J., & Farber, B.A. (2016a). Changes in object relations over the course of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 1-11. DOI: 10.1002/cpp.2021.
Mullin, A.S. J., Hilsenroth, M.J., Gold, J., & Farber, B.A. (2016b). Facets of Object Representation: Process and Outcome over the course of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Journal of Personality Assessment, 1-11. DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2016.1215320.
Niec, L.N., & Russ, S.W. (2002). Children’s Internal Representations, Empathy, and Fantasy Play: A Validity Study of the SCORS-Q. Psychological Assessment, 14(3), 331-338.
O’Gorman, E.T., Cobb, H.R., Galtieri, L.R., & Kurtz, J.E. (2018). Stimulus Characteristics in Picture Story Exercise Cards and Their Effects on The Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method. Journal of Personality Assessment. DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2018.1519829
Ortigo, K.M., Westen, D., DeFife, J.A., & Bradley, B. (2013). Attachment, Social Cognition, and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in a Traumatized, Urban Population: Evidence for the Mediating Role of Object Relations. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 26, 361-368.
Pad, R., Huprich, S.K., & Porcerelli, J. (2019). Convergent and discriminant validity of self-report and performance-based assessment of object relations. Journal of Personality Assessment, DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2019.1625909.
Peters, E., Hilsenroth, M., Eudell-Simmons, E., Blagys, M., & Handler, L. (2006). Reliability and Validity of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale in Clinical Use. Psychotherapy Research,16(5), 617-626.
Pinsker, J., Stein, M., & Hilsenroth, M. (2007). The Clinical Utility of Early Memories as Predictors of Therapeutic Alliance. Psychotherapy, 44(1), 96-109.
Porcerelli, J.H., Dauphin, V.B., Ablon, J.S., & Leitman, S. (2007). Psychoanalysis with Avoidant Personality Disorder: A Systematic Case Study. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 44(1), 1-13.
Porcerelli, J.H., Cogan, R., Markova, T., Miller, K., & Mickens, L. (2011). The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition Defensive Functioning Scale: a validity study. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 52, 225-230.
Porcerelli, J.H., Cogan, R., & Bambery, M. (2011). The Mental Functioning Axis of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual: An Adolescent Case Study. Journal of Personality Assessment, 93(2), 177-184.
Price, J., Hilsenroth, M., Callahan, K., Petretic-Jackson, P., & Bonge, D. (2004). A Pilot Study of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 11, 379-391.
Richardson, L., Porcerelli, J.H., Dauphin, V.B., Morris, P., & Murdoch, W. (2018). Use of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method in a Primary Care Setting. Journal of Personality Assessment, 100(2), 156-165, DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2017.1369984
Ridenour, J.M., Lewis, K.C., Poston, J.M., & Ciecalone, D.N. (2019). Performance-Based Assessment of Social Cognition in Borderline Versus Psychotic Psychopathology. Psychoanalytic Psychology, DOI: 10.1027/1192-5604/a000114.
Ridenour, J.M., Lewis, K.C., Siefert, C.J., Pitman, S.R., Knauss, D., & Stein, MB. (2021). Card pull effects of the Thematic Apperception Test using the Social Cognition and Object Relations scale-Global Rating Method on a complex psychiatric sample. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, DOI: 10.1002/cpp.2554.
Ridenour, J.M., Lewis, K.C., Siefert, C.J., & Stein, M.B (2022). Longitudinal stability of Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method dimensional ratings, score ranges and narrative ‘blandness’ in a clinical sample. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, DOI: 10.1002/cpp.2729.
Ruchensky, J.R., Dowgwillo, E.A., Kelley, S.E., Massey, C., Slavin-Mulford, J., Richardson, L.A., Blais, M.A., & Stein, M.B (2021). Exploring the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders using SCORS-G ratings of Thematic Apperception Test Narratives, Journal of Personality Disorders, 35, 535-551.
Siefert, C.J., Stein, M.B., Slavin-Mulford, J., Sinclair, S.J., Haggerty, G., & Blais, M.A. (2016). Estimating the Effects of Thematic Apperception Test Card Content on SCORS-G Ratings: Replication with a nonclinical sample. Journal of Personality Assessment, DOI: 10.1080/00223891.
Siefert, C.J., Stein, M., Slavin-Mulford, J., Haggerty, G., Sinclair, S.J., Funke, D. & Blais, M.A. (2018). Exploring the Factor Structure of the Social Cognition and Object Relations-Global Rating Method: Findings from a Large Heterogeneous Sample. Journal of Personality Assessment, 100(2), 122-134, DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2017.1336716.
Siefert, C. J., Rammouni, L. Z., Jowers, C. E., & Slavin-Mulford, J. (2023). The utility of the Self–Other Narrative Evaluation Scale (SONES) for assessing internal representations in interpersonal narratives. Psychoanalytic Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000446
Sinclair, S.J., Slavin-Mulford, J., Antonius, D., Stein, M.B., Siefert, C.J., Haggerty, G., Malone, J.C., O’Keefe, S., & Blais, M.A. (2013). Development and Preliminary Validation of the Level of Care Index (LOCI) from the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) in a psychiatric sample, Psychological Assessment, 25(2), 606-617.
Slavin, J., Stein, M., Pinsker-Aspen, J. & Hilsenroth, M. (2007). Early Memories from Outpatients with and without a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 12(5), 435-451.
Slavin-Mulford, J., Amerson, L. Hilsenroth, M., Zodan, J., Charnas, J., Cain, L.A., & Stein, M.B. (2020). Are all narratives the same: Convergent and discriminant validity of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method (SCORS-G) across two narrative types. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. DOI: 10.1002/cpp.2525.
Slavin-Mulford, J. Amerson, L.R., Hilsenroth, M.J., Cain, L.A., Wilcox, M., & Stein, M.B (2021). How narrative source impacts convergence of ratings from the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method (SCORS-G) with psychotherapy process measures. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, DOI: 10.1002/cpp.2595.
Stein, M., Pinsker, J. & Hilsenroth, M. (2007). Borderline Pathology and the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI): An Evaluation of Criterion and Concurrent Validity. Journal of Personality Assessment, 88(1), 82-90.
Stein, M.B., Hilsenroth, M.J., Pinsker-Aspen, J.H. & Primavera, L. (2009). Validity of DSM-IV Axis V Global Assessment of Relational Functioning Scale (GARF): A Multi-Method Assessment. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 197(1), 50-55.
Stein, M.B., Siefert, C.J., Stewart, R.V.S. & Hilsenroth, M.J.(2011). Relationship between the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (SCORS) and Attachment Style in a clinical sample. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 18, 512-523.
Stein, M.B., Slavin-Mulford, J., Sinclair, S.J., Siefert, C.J., & Blais, M.A. (2012). Exploring the Construct Validity of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale in a Clinical Sample. Journal of Personality Assessment, 94(5), 533-540.
Stein, M.B., Slavin-Mulford, J., Siefert, C.J., Sinclair, S.J., Renna, M., Malone, J., Bello, I., & Blais, M.A. (2013). SCORS-G Stimulus Characteristics of Select Thematic Apperception Test Cards. Journal of Personality Assessment, DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2013.823440
Stein, M.B., Slavin-Mulford, J., Sinclair, S.J., Smith, M., Chung, W.J., Liebman, R., & Blais, M. (2015). External Validity of SCORS-G ratings of Thematic Apperception Test narratives in a sample of outpatients and inpatients. Rorschachiana, 36(1), 58-81.
Stein, M.B., Slavin-Mulford, J., Sinclair S. J., Chung W.J., Roche, M., Denckla, C., & Blais, M.A. (2018). Extending the use of the SCORS-G Composite rating in assessing level of personality organization. Journal of Personality Assessment, 100(2), DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2016.1195394
Stein, M. B. and Slavin-Mulford, J. (2018). Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians and Researchers. New York, NY: Routledge
Stein, M. and Siefert, CJ (2018). Special Section to the Special Section on the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method (SCORS-G): From Research to Practice. Journal of Personality Assessment, 100(2), 117-121, DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2017.1418749
Stein, M.B, Calderon, S., Ruchensky, J., Massey, C., Slavin-Mulford, J., Chung, W-J., Richardson, L.A., & Blais, M.A. (2020). When’s a story a story? Determining interpretability of Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global ratings on Thematic Apperception Test Narratives. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 1-14, DOI: 10.1002/cpp.2442
Thompson-Brenner, H., Boisseau, C.L., & Satir, D.A. (2010). Adolescent Eating Disorders: Treatment and Response in a Naturalistic Study. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 66(3), 277-301.
Vaughn, K.N., Jenkins S.R., & Weber, K.M. (2021). Object relations assessment predicts outpatients’ attrition, early working alliance, and psychotherapy process. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. DOI: 10.1002/cpp.2552.
Weise, K.L. & Tuber, S. (2004). The self and object representations of narcissistically disturbed children: An empirical investigation. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 21(2), 244-258.
Westen, D. (1995); “Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale: Q-sort for Projective Stories (SCORS-Q)”; Unpublished manuscript; Department of Psychiatry, The Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA.
Whipple, R. & Fowler, J.C. (2011). Affect, Relationship Schemas, and Social Cognition: Self-Injuring Borderline Personality Disorder Inpatients. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 28(2), 183-185.
Youn, M., Lee, J., Lim, J., Kwak, H., & Chang, M. (2018). Social Cognition Deficit in Individuals with Antisocial Personality Disorder Tendencies. Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 37(3), 276-288. DOI = 10.15842/kjcp.2018.37.3.002
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SCORS-Original Research
Abbate, L. Laghi, F., & Pace, C.S. (2012). Divorced and married couples’ object relations: A pilot-study with the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (SCORS). Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 39(2), 369-384.
Barends, A., Westen, D., Leigh, J., Silbert, D., & Byers, S. (1990). Assessing Affect-Tone of Relationship Paradigms from TAT and Interview Data. Psychological Assessment, 2(3), 329-332.
Bedi, R., Muller, R.T., & Thornback, K. (2013). Object Relations and Psychopathology Among Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse. Psychological Trauma Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 5(1), 233-240.
Bieliauskaitė, R. & Kuraitė, E. (2011). Mental self and object representations of 7-10 year old boys with behavior difficulties. Psichologija, 44, 75-87.
Bouvet, C. & Cleach, C. (2011). Early dropout patients in psychiatric psychosocial rehabilitation treatment and their bindings with relational skills, object relation and intensity of psychopathology. L’Encéphale: Revue de psychiatrie Clinique biologique et thérapeutique, 37(1), S19-S26.
Bram, A.D., Gallant, S.J., & Segrin, C. (1999). A Longitudinal Investigation of Object Relations: Child-Rearing Antecedents, Stability in Adulthood, and Construct Validation. Journal of Research in Personality, 33, 159-188.
Cogan, R. & Porcerelli, J.H. (1996). Object Relations in Abusive Partner Relationships: An Empirical Investigation. Journal of Personality Assessment, 66(1), 106-115.
Cogan, R., Porcerelli, J.H., & Dromgoole, K. (2001). Psychodynamics of Partner, Stranger, and Generally Violent Male College Students. Psychoanalytic Psychology 18(3), 515-533.
Drodge, E.N. (1997). Parental Representations, Self-View, and Interpersonal Functioning of Older Adolescents. Journal of Personality Assessment, 68(1), 152-164.
Eurelings-Bontekoe, E.H.M., Luyten, P., & Snellen, W. (2009). Validation of a Theory-Driven Profile Interpretation of the Dutch Short Form of the MMPI Using the TAT Social Cognitions and Object Relations Scale (SCORS). Journal of Personality Assessment, 91(2), 155-165.
Eurelings-Bontekoe, E.H.M., Zwinkels, K., Schaap-Jonker, & Edrisi, M. (2011). Formal Characteristics of the Thematic Apperception Test Narratives of Adult Patients with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. A Preliminary Study. Psychology, 2(7), 687-693.
Field, N.P., Sturgeon, S.E., Puryear, R., Hibbard, S., & Horowitz, M.J. (2001). Object Relations as a predictor of adjustment in conjugal bereavement. Development and Psychopathology, 13, 399-412.
Ford, J.D., Fisher, P., & Larson, L. (1997). Object Relations as a Predictor of Treatment Outcome with Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65(4), 547-559.
Fowler, C., Hilsenroth, M.J., & Handler, L. (1996). Two Methods of Early Memories Data Collection: An Empirical Comparison of the Projective Yield. Assessment, 3(1), 63-71.
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