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Distinguishing patterns for Mexican‐American children on the WISC‐R
Author(s) -
Dean Raymond S.
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(197910)35:4<790::aid-jclp2270350421>3.0.co;2-x
Subject(s) - mexican americans , psychology , wechsler intelligence scale for children , discriminant function analysis , multivariate analysis , developmental psychology , intelligence quotient , clinical psychology , psychiatry , ethnic group , medicine , cognition , statistics , mathematics , sociology , anthropology
Concerned the isolation of distinctive WISC‐R subtest patterns that would differentiate the performance of Anglo and Mexican‐American children. A stepwise discriminant analysis was used to evaluate the subtest scores of 60 Mexican‐American children and a matched sample of 60 Anglo children in a multivariate fashion. Mexican‐American children did predictively poorer than Anglo children on the Similarities, Arithmetic, and Picture Completion subtests. Univeriate analysis of IQ scales showed a P > V discrepancy for Mexican‐American, but not for Anglo children. Implications for assessing Mexican‐American children were discussed.