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THE PORTEUS MAZE TEST AND DELINQUENCY
Author(s) -
GIBBENS T. C. N.
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1958.tb01450.x
Subject(s) - psychology , juvenile delinquency , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , truancy , test (biology) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , personality , social psychology , criminology , biology , paleontology
S ummary . Borstal lads have a significantly higher Q score on the Porteus Maze Test than controls. A high Q score is related to intellectual dullness and also to difference in verbal and performance intelligence. Socially, it is associated with truancy and being one of a large family, and, to some extent, with having a worse prognosis as a delinquent. Although the Q score tends to fall during Borstal training, it is not significantly associated with absconding or repeated punishment. The Q score showed little relationship with any of the scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, except the manic scale; but is associated with muscular physique.