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WISC‐R subtest differences for male and female LD children and youth
Author(s) -
Vance Hubert Booney,
Singer Marc G.,
Engin Ann W.
Publication year - 1980
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(198010)36:4<953::aid-jclp2270360422>3.0.co;2-j
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , wechsler intelligence scale for children , learning disability , analysis of variance , intelligence quotient , learning disabled , clinical psychology , cognition , medicine , psychiatry
Investigated the performance on the WISC‐R of 98 learning disabled children and youth (69 males/29 females), who ranged in age from 6‐3 to 13‐6 to determine whether there were any significant subtest scale score differences between sexes. A 2 × 10 analysis of variance was used to analyzed these data. Differences between the individual subtest means were analyzed by using Newman Keuls test for simple effects. Results indicated that males obtained higher (but not significant) scores on the six verbal subtests. Females scored significantly higher on coding than did their counterparts. In addition, the Verbal vs. Performance IQ dichotomy did not appear as useful evidence in the diagnosis of learning disabilities. Evidence from the investigation did not indicate that a significant interaction effect existed between sexes and WISC‐R subtest scores.