Validity of the Felt Figure Techniques: A Factor Analytic Approach

Summary Principal components analyses of the intercorrelations among age, education, self-concepts, manifest psychopathology, cognitive measures of human distance, and various indices from Kuethe's felt figure techniques were reported for 48 schizophrenic and 30 normal women. The felt figure indices for both groups represented components corresponding primarily to their techniques of measurement. The few independent relationships between the felt figure indices and other variables indicated that Kuethe's techniques may measure different dimensions in normal and schizophrenic women.