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Watson, Janine E.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1988
The self-report and a modified informant version of the Psychopathology Instrument for Mentally Retarded Adults (PIMRA) was used to assess 160 mentally retarded adults. Significant relationships between PIMRA scores and age, sex, and level of retardation were found. (DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Psychology
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Birney, Damian P.; Halford, Graeme S.; Andrews, Glenda – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
Relational complexity (RC) theory conceptualizes an individual's processing capacity and a task's complexity along a common ordinal metric. The authors describe the development of the Latin Square Task (LST) that assesses the influence of RC on reasoning. The LST minimizes the role of knowledge and storage capacity and thus refines the…
Descriptors: Memory, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Psychometrics
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Gullone, Eleonora; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1996
This study compared psychometric results on the Fear Survey Schedule for Children-II for 187 children and adolescents with mental retardation and 372 intellectually average students. The schedule demonstrated sound psychometric properties for both samples. Mentally retarded subjects scored significantly higher than the comparison sample, and their…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Elementary Secondary Education
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Van der Elst, Wim; Van Boxtel, Martin P. J.; Van Breukelen, Gerard J. P.; Jolles, Jelle – Assessment, 2006
The Stroop Color-Word Test was administered to 1,856 cognitively screened, healthy Dutch-speaking participants aged 24 to 81 years. The effects of age, gender, and education on Stroop test performance were investigated to adequately stratify the normative data. The results showed that especially the speed-dependent Stroop scores (time to complete…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Adults, Psychological Evaluation, Predictor Variables
Hampton, Nan Zhang – 1999
This study explores the applicability of the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale (CDMSE) to Chinese college students. The reliability and validity of the scale are examined using two independent samples (128 students from a polytechnic institute and 157 students from a teacher's college in China). The results indicate that the CDMSE is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Career Choice, Career Development