The effects of MMPI social introversion on WAIS PA performance

✍ Scribed by Thomas Schill

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1966
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 196 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(196601)22:1<72::aid-jclp2270220118>3.0.co;2-2

✦ Synopsis

PROBLEM

This experiment is concerned with the effects of social introversion upon the picture arrangement (PA) subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). Clinicians generally assume that the PA subtest measures a S's ability to comprehend and size up a total situation. Since the subject matter of the test nearly always involves some human or practical situation it is further assumed that PA performance reflects social intelligence or, as Wechsler prefers to put it, "general intelligence applied to social situations" (6, p. 75). S~hafer(~8 p. ( I ) , for instance, attributes the high PA score often found in narcissistic character disorders to their characteristically facile social anticipations. Similarly, it is felt that psychopathic character disorders frequently have a conspicuously high PA score, especially the "shrewd schemer" who can quickly size up a social situation and manipulate it for