Do high scores on the Adolescent-School Problems and Immaturity Scales of the MMPI-A have implications for cognitive performance as measured by the WISC-III?
✍ Scribed by Lisa C. Milne; Philip Greenway
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 22 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-3085
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✦ Synopsis
High scores on the Adolescent-School Problems (A-Sch) content scale and the Immaturity (IMM) supplementary scale of the MMPI-A have been associated with poor school performance and possible learning disabilities . The aim of the present study was to determine whether these scales were associated with cognitive performance as measured by the WISC-III. Subjects completed the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Third Edition (WISC-III) and the MMPI-A. Their scores for the WISC-III sub-tests and SCAD were calculated. The A-Sch content and the IMM supplementary scales were extracted from the MMPI-A. The results indicated that A-Sch was associated with lower WISC-III scores in males and predicted poorer performance in Full Scale IQ (FIQ), Verbal IQ (VIQ), Information, and Arithmetic. For females however, there was little evidence to suggest a relationship between A-Sch and cognitive performance. The association between IMM and the WISC-III sub-tests was found to be a result of its correlation with A-Sch. The implications of these findings, in particular, those involving gender differences, were discussed.