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Intelligence test performance as affected by anxiety and test administration procedures
Author(s) -
Mishra Shitala P.
Publication year - 1982
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(198210)38:4<825::aid-jclp2270380423>3.0.co;2-2
Subject(s) - psychology , wechsler adult intelligence scale , test (biology) , analysis of variance , clinical psychology , intelligence quotient , test score , anxiety , test anxiety , audiology , developmental psychology , cognition , psychiatry , medicine , standardized test , paleontology , mathematics education , biology
Compared the scores obtained by high and low anxious S s, when the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale was administered by a trained examiner, with those obtained when the test was administered mechanically. A sample of 40 S s were classified into high and low anxious groups in terms of their scores on the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale. Each S was given half the items of the WAIS verbal scale by a trained examiner and half by machine. Analysis of the scores under these two modes of test presentation, using a 2 × 2 × 2 factional analysis of variance, showed no significant differences in performance of high and low anxious S s under two testing situations. Similarly, there were no differences in the performance of male and female S s. However, the S s showed a significant tendency to score higher when the test was given by an examiner than when the test was administered mechanically. Such differences, however, were not observed when the scores on each subtest were compared under two testing conditions except in the case of the Information and Arithmetic subtests.