Abbreviated RPAS Interpretation

Question 1

R

Answer 1

may be elevated for many reasons including:
- psychological flexibility
- compliance
- intelligence

Question 2

F%

Answer 2

Elevations suggest lack of engagement with the test and possibly the environment.

Question 3

Complexity Index

Answer 3

An index of psychological engagement, effort, and sophistication.

Question 4

Blends

Answer 4

Index of flexibility and richness in thinking and experiencing.

Question 5

Sy

Answer 5

High score suggest sophisticated integration of thinking and processing.

Question 6

Dd%

Answer 6

Tendency to focus on uncommon, small, idiosyncratic details.

Question 7

SI

Answer 7

Elevations suggest complex and flexible thinking.

Question 8

M

Answer 8

Indication of one’s ability to use cognition and imagination to enrich experience.

Question 9

MC

Answer 9

Index of adaptive psychological resources (the ability and tendency to enrich one’s experiential world with thought and affect)

Question 10

M/MC

Answer 10

Degree to which decisions and actions are guided by ideation vs. affect and reactivity

Question 11

PPD

Answer 11

An index of negative internal forces working in one’s life, both disruptive concerns and dysphoria.

Question 12

MC-PPD

Answer 12

An index of coping effectiveness, reflecting the balance between positive and internal resources and negative internal turmoil.

Question 13

CF+C/Sum C

Answer 13

An index of one’s ability or tendency to modulate emotions and reactions to emotional stressors.

Question 14

IntCont

Answer 14

Elevations suggest an “intellectualized, pseudo-intellectualized or pedantic” tendency.

Question 15

V

Answer 15

Perspective taking that requires cognitive sophistication; may reflect negative self-evaluation.

Question 16

WSumC

Answer 16

A measure of “reactivity, vitality, and liveliness, and perhaps willingness to process/respond to emotion.

Question 17

Pure C

Answer 17

Suggests “openness to immediate impressions and a relatively unfiltered or unmodulated expereince.

Question 18

Mp/(Mp + Ma)

Answer 18

Suggests a tendency “toward passive fantasy and ideation, especially involving people”.

Question 19

EII-3

Answer 19

A broad measure of thinking and disturbance and severity of psychopathology, including reality testing, thought disturbance, disturbing content, and interpersonal confusion and disturbance.

Question 20

TP-Comp

Answer 20

Assesses reality testing and thought organization and control

Question 21

WSumCog

Answer 21

High scores indicate disturbed and disordered thought.

Question 22

SevCog

Answer 22

Elevations suggest psychotic-level lapses in thinking and communicating.

Question 23

FQ-%

Answer 23

High score indicate distortions in perception that may lead to poor judgement or unconventional behavior.

Question 24

FQo%

Answer 24

A reflection of seeing the world as others do

Question 25

P

Answer 25

A measure of conventional and widely-accepted interpretations of the environment.

Question 26

m

Answer 26

Elevations indicate anxious ideation in response to a sense of not being in control of the external environment.

Question 27

Y

Answer 27

Anxious feelings arising from stressors

Question 28

MOR

Answer 28

Elevated scores suggest damage, pessimistic ideation, dysphoric, negative view of the world

Question 29

YTVC’

Answer 29

In less healthy individuals, high scores suggest considerable implicit distress relayed to anxiousness, irritation, sadness, dysphoria, loneliness, or helplessness.

Question 30

SC-Comp

Answer 30

An index of suicide risk and self-destructive behavior; not related to self-mutilation or gestures.

Question 31

C’Blend

Answer 31

Reflects tendency to not feel positive emotion without polluting it with negative emotion.

Question 32

C’

Answer 32

Indicate blunting, dampening, deadening emotional reactivity.

Question 33

CritCont%

Answer 33

Elevations suggest history or trauma and tendency to disassociate (TCI)

Question 34

ODL%

Answer 34

Excellent measure of implicit dependency drives and behaviors.

Question 35

SR

Answer 35

An implicit behavioral measure of oppositionality and independence strivings (not anger).

Question 36

MAP/MAH+MAP

Answer 36

Elevations suggest poor object relation

Question 37

PHR/PHR+GHR

Answer 37

Elevations suggest problematic understanding of self or others; distortions, confusion, damaged, malevolent, aggressive, personalized, partial unrealistic, or vulnerable.

Question 38

M

Answer 38

Distorted understanding of others that lead to interpersonal problems; unrealistic appraisals of others thoughts and intentions.

Question 39

AGC

Answer 39

Reflects aggressive concerns, preoccupations and identifications.

Question 40

V-Comp

Answer 40

High scores indicate guarded wariness to inflexibility in acute hyper-vigilance and distancing from others that could cross over to paranoid personality.

Question 41

H

Answer 41

High scores indicate capacity for mature, healthy relationships.

Question 42

COP

Answer 42

High scores suggest a tendency to view relationships as supportive, helping, rewarding.

Question 43

MAH

Answer 43

High scores suggest capacity for mature, healthy realtionships.

Question 44

NPH/SumH

Answer 44

Elevations suggests a tendency to view self and others in unrealistic of fanciful ways.

Question 45

r

Answer 45

Elevations suggest one seeks mirroring support or is self-centered.

Question 46

p/(p+a)

Answer 46

Elevations indicate a passive approach and reliance on others or surrender to luck or fate.

Question 47

AGM

Answer 47

Elevations suggest “awareness of or preoccupation with, aggressive intent or action in the world”.

Question 48

T

Answer 48

Elevations suggest a strong pull to interpersonal closeness and support and feeling loneliness and distress about unmet dependency needs.

Question 49

PER

Answer 49

Elevations suggest defensiveness or efforts to engage the examiner (consider how it is offered)

Question 50

An

Answer 50

Elevations suggest a “vulnerability or fragility of body image and psyche”.