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Delinquents and the tapping test
Author(s) -
Andrew June M.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197707)33:3<786::aid-jclp2270330340>3.0.co;2-x
Subject(s) - psychology , tapping , juvenile delinquency , test (biology) , finger tapping , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , ethnic group , audiology , medicine , paleontology , management , sociology , anthropology , economics , biology
This study provied Tapping Test normas for young legal offenders by meansuring 54 Anglo male probationers (35 juveniles, 19 adults) in Study I, and 127 probationers aged 12‐17 within eight sex/age/ethnicity subgroups in Study II. The Tapping Test, a measure of fine‐motor speed, forms part of the Halstead‐Reitan battery for neuropsychodiagnosis. Study I results suggest that tapping speed relates to age for juvenile male delinquents, p < 0.01. The results were only partially consistent with those of prior studies. Future researchers may wish to: (a) refine norms by appropriate adjustments for age and IQ; (b) investigate why Anglo female delinquents were especially slow on the Tapping Test; and (c) evaluate to what extent false positives may be provoked on this test by depression rather than organicity.