Projective assessment instruments based on Jungian or archetypal theory are few in number. The MARI Card Test, an instrument developed by Joan Kellogg, MA, ATR, out of her work with mandalas, symbols and color, fills that gap in the assessment literature. The present study is concerned with extending the use and accessibility of the MARI Card Test by examining the reliability between the MARI Card Test and an adapted group version. The tested population was a group of outpatient sex offenders whose crimes were against children.
Five research questions were posed. The first two assessed the reliability between the two versions of the test, and between each stage on both the original and adapted versions of the test. Using McNemar's Chi Square Significance of Change Test, significant correspondences were found between the two test versions and in nine of the thirteen stages.

The third research question compared the constancy of choices over a four week time period. No reliable effect of time delay is discernable and the order in which the versions were administered was insignificant.

The fourth and fifth questions pertain to the clinical formulations regarding developmental process and treatment possibilities of a sex offender population. This group acted on the environment in unmodulated primitive instincts of survival and security.

The present study which used the MARI Card Test and an adapted version developed specifically for this study, confirmed an intuitive sense that symbols and mandalas, as archetypal forms, will projectively resonate with psychological process in various visual presentations.