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Emotional variables and neuropsychological test performance
Author(s) -
Gass Carlton S.
Publication year - 1991
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(199101)47:1<100::aid-jclp2270470116>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , neuropsychology , neuropsychological test , clinical psychology , test (biology) , psychiatry , personality , cognition , social psychology , paleontology , biology
Although previous studies have demonstrated the general success of neuropsychological tests in discriminating brain‐impaired patients from normals and patients with psychiatric disorders, limited attention has addressed the more specific effects of emotional disturbance on test performance. This study investigated MMPI correlates of Halstead‐Reitan test (HRB) performance in a sample of 105 neuropsychological referrals (predominantly psychiatric) who had negative neurologic findings. The results indicated significant effects for age and education on many of the tests, with smaller but statistically significant relationships between the quality of HRB test performance and MMPI scores.