This study attempted to understand the response characteristics of general adolescents and school maladjusted adolescents to determine whether the rose bush visualization technique (RVT) can be used as a projection test tool. The subjects of the study were 50 general adolescents attending middle and high schools and 50 school maladjusted adolescents; RVT was used as an inspection tool. Data collection occurred from March 2021 to August 2021. In the data analysis, a correlation analysis was performed todetermine the degree of agreement between scorers, and a cross-analysis was conducted to determine the difference in response characteristics of the two groups. The results were as follows. First, among the formal scales of RVT figures, significant differences existed between the two groups in “colorability,” “appropriateness of color,” “internal energy,” “space,” “logic,” “peripheral environment,” “the characteristics of a line,” and “repeatability.” Second, among the content scales of the RVT figure, a significant difference existed between the two groups in the “color of flowers,” “size of flowers,” “number of flowers,” “health of flowers,” “thickness of stems,” and “size of leaves”. Third, among the PDI scales in the RVT figure, a significant difference existed between the two groups in the “flower health status,” “flower mood,” “optimism of the end,” and “self-awareness.” Based on these research results, the significance and limitations of this study were then discussed.