Group administration of the Bender Gestalt Test to predict early school performance

✍ Scribed by Andrew S. Dibner; Eric J. Korn

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 424 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(196907)25:3<263::aid-jclp2270250311>3.0.co;2-d

✦ Synopsis

Buck and Geers") recently reported the correlations among 1 1 varieties of conscious experience in terms of their frequency of occurrence. This study was designed to clarify the relationships in their data hy means of factor analysis.

.METHOU :AND RESULTS

The data were analyzed by the principal-factor method with squared multiple correlations in the diagonal, and three factors were retained for rotation to the Varimax criterion(*) with results shown in Table 1. Factor I is defined b daydreams, dCji vu, atid hypn o ic and lipnopom ic experiences; Factor 3 \y synest eaias and gactor I11 by depersonalization and dreams. Rapaport(*) has suggested that the varieties of conscious experience form a more or less continuous series betweeii waking consciousness and the consciousness of the dream. The three factors may perhaps be interpreted a s segments of this series.

s r M M A nY

A factor analysis of Buck and Geers' data on the relationshi s among 1 1 varieties of conscious experience yiehed three factors. These appear to represent segments of a continuum ranging from waking consciousness to the consciousness of the dream.