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Utility of the WAIS in predicting vocational success of psychiatric patients
Author(s) -
Webster Raymond E.
Publication year - 1979
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(197901)35:1<111::aid-jclp2270350117>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - vocational education , psychology , wechsler adult intelligence scale , psychiatry , clinical psychology , intelligence quotient , cognition , pedagogy
Examined the utility of the WAIS OA, BD, PIQ and FSIQ scores in combination with age, apparent degree of emotional severity and psychiatric disability in predicting the vocational success of 180 psychiatric outpatients. Although no significant statistical differences were obtained in a cros‐validation procedure indicating that psychiatric disability affected the efficacy of the derived regression equations, substantial differences in predictable variance accounted for were found to be related to the nature of the psychiatric disability. This must be attended to in attempts to predict the vocational success of psychiatric outpatients.