Relationship between psychopathology, learning disabilities, or both and WISC-III subtest scatter in adolescents
✍ Scribed by Philip Greenway; Lisa Milne
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 23 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-3085
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✦ Synopsis
The aim of this study was to determine whether subtest scatter might be an indicator of learning disabilities (LDs), psychopathology, or of both, in a sample of normal adolescents. Subjects completed the WISC-III and the MMPI-A and then their scores for the WISC-III subtests, verbal scatter (VScatter), performance scatter (PScatter), full scale scatter (FScatter) scores, perceptual organisation factor (PO), and the SCAD profiles were calculated. The MMPI-A was scored and the clinical scales were extracted. The hypothesis that subtest scatter is associated with LDs was generally not supported. There was a relationship between subtest scatter and psychological disturbance in adolescent males, however the results for females were less clear. Further, high PScatter in adolescent males was associated with an MMPI-A codetype 4-2/2-4, indicating tendencies toward depressive features, delinquent behavior, and possibly substance abuse, tendencies which are likely to lead to school failure.