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Section I. Research

Validation of the Zulliger Test with Transactional Analysis as a Guideline

Pages 33-38
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article describes a study designed to show the validity of the Zulliger test (Zulliger & Salomon, 1970) when applied to transactional analysis constructs. Thirty-three patients who were undergoing transactional analysis therapy were asked to respond to the Zulliger test collectively applied. Their responses were blindly and independently analyzed by two specialists in the Zulliger test, and the results were compared with information from psychological profiles prepared by the patients' psychotherapist. The data strongly support the validity of the Zulliger test in the context of transactional analysis. The significance level is in the range of 1 % to 5%, according to the specific construct. The study also provides evidence of two theoretical formulations: the so-called basic driver and the defensive life position.

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Vanda Leite Pinto Vasconcellos

Guenia Bunchaft is a Brazilian psychologist and co-author of Estatística sem Mistérios (Statistics without Mysteries). She has also written a number of articles published in Brazilian psychology journals and currently teaches psychometrics at Estácio de Sá University in Campos in the Brazilian State of Rio de Janeiro. She is also a doctoral student at the Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro–UERJ.
Alberto Luís da Rocha Tavares was a psychiatrist and an ITAA Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst and part of a small group of physicians and psychologists who introduced transactional analysis in Brazil in 1970. He was also the founder and first president of the Brazilian Transactional Analysis Association, now called União Nacional dos Analistas Transacionais — UNAT. Dr. Tavares died in July 1999.
Vanda Leite Pinto Vasconcellos is a Brazilian clinical psychologist in private practice in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a Certified Transactional Analyst member of the Brazilian Transactional Analysis Association (UNAT). and a former journalist with many published articles. As a psychologist she has worked mainly as co-author with Guenia Bunchaft, her former teacher at Santa Úrsula University.