Review of Motivation and visual factors. Individual studies of college students

Abstract

Reviews the book, Motivation and visual factors. Individual studies of college students by I. E. Bender, H. A. Imus, J. W. M. Rothney, C. Kemple, and M. R. England (1942). This book presents data from the Dartmouth Eye Institute study of students' visual characteristics. Twenty representative cases were selected on the basis of visual and educational factors for presentation in this report. These twenty case studies make interesting reading. The psycho-portrait portion of a study exceeds in interest and space all other materials. Attention may here be called to some of the conclusions: there is no statistical evidence of a significant relationship between visual efficiency and academic grades, or between eye defects and academic grades, or between eye defects and tested abilities; the subject's report of the severity and extent of his symptoms is more closely allied to his motivational pattern than to the degree of his visual defect; and "the particular motivational pattern of the individual is the principal factor that determines the nature of the individual's adjustment to his visual defects or their correction." This study is very suggestive as to techniques, devices and problems concerning college students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)