Object Relations Functioning in a Community Adult Sample: Further Normative Data for the SCORS-G

The Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method (SCORS-G) examines narrative data on eight dimensions of personality functioning. Research has demonstrated reliability and validity of the SCORS-G, but clinical utility is limited by the lack of data from nonclinical samples to provide a normative basis for interpreation. Bram (2014) introduced data from 63 college students, and the present study sought to extend this normative perspective with data from 140 nonpatient adults from the Eugene-Springfield Community Sample (ESCS). Narrative data obtained using five stimulus pictures from the Picture Story Exercise (PSE; Smith, 1992) demonstrated good to excellent inter-rater reliability across three raters. Median scores for the eight dimensions are generally near the midpoint, and the factor structure replicates that reported by Siefert et al. (2018). Suggestions are offered for establishing formal norms for the SCORS-G.