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Investigations into the relationship of the PPVT‐R and the WISC‐R with incarcerated delinquents
Author(s) -
Rosso Martin,
Falasco Sharon Lee,
Koller James R.
Publication year - 1984
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(198403)40:2<588::aid-jclp2270400235>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - peabody picture vocabulary test , psychology , wechsler intelligence scale for children , wechsler adult intelligence scale , developmental psychology , population , vocabulary , psychiatry , demography , cognition , linguistics , philosophy , sociology
Examined the relationship between the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test‐Revised (PPVT‐R), the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children‐Revised (WISC‐R) with 35 incarcerated delinquents between the ages of 13–10 and 16–10. Mean scaled scores were computed across all measures. A statistically significant difference ( p <. 01) between the PPVT‐R mean scaled score and all other measures was obtained. The PPVT‐R correlated significantly ( p <. 0001) with the WISC‐R VIQ ( r = 0.87), PIQ ( r = 0.78), FSIQ ( r = 0.86) and the PPVT ( r = 0.80), whereas the original PPVT demonstrated significant yet lower correlations with the WISC‐R VIQ ( r = 0.78), PIQ ( r = 0.77) and FSIQ ( r = 0.80). The clinical significance of utilizing the PPVT‐R as a measure of receptive vocabulary and its practical relationship to the PPVT and WISC‐R with a juvenile delinquent population was discussed.