Q-sort test

• What is the Qsort congruence test ?

  • asked clients to choose words which describe their current self image + desired ideal self
  • calculate scores 0-100 based on similarity
• What then happens ?

  • repeated throughout therapy to measure progress
  • closer to 100 the more conngruence
• Evaluation ?

  1. roger introduced objective measures
  2. Gough
  3. personal + subjective
• 1. roger 


  Introduced objective measure to measure progress of congruence within therapy

  - difficult to measure as you can’t see
• 2. Gough

  • Used test to identity air force officers with incongruence, asked the colleagues to rate their personality
  • found link between incongruence and unfriendly, awkward and confused
• 3. Personal + subjective 


  Involves talking about self image which can be difficult - ethical problems

  - unreliable - changed day to day

  + inline with humanistic approach