کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
929459 922573 2010 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
European and American WAIS III norms: Cross-national differences in performance subtest scores
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روانشناسی تجربی و شناختی
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European and American WAIS III norms: Cross-national differences in performance subtest scores
چکیده انگلیسی

For this study, European WAIS III performance subtest norms were compared to the original US norms. When European WAIS III raw scores were scored using US norms, the resulting perceptual organization index (POI) means were significantly higher than the processing speed index (PSI) means. The POI/PSI difference is roughly 5–10 points for the German (n = 1897), Spanish (n = 1369), French (n = 1104), British (n = 370) and Finnish (n = 446) WAIS III standardization samples. The POI mean was higher than the PSI mean in all age groups in each European sample. It is concluded that cross-national differences in any one factor (such as general intelligence) are unlikely to cause such effects. It is hypothesized that cultural factors, differences in education and test-taking attitudes, underlie the difference between US and European test profiles. The results of the study suggest that national test norms may have poor cross-national validity even when the effects of age, sex and education are controlled for.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Intelligence - Volume 38, Issue 1, January–February 2010, Pages 187–192
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