The Porteus maze test as a discriminative measure in delinquency

Abstract

Subjects were selected from the New York City Children's Hospital, 32 girls and 42 boys showing conduct disorders, 34 girls and 47 boys showing social adjustment. There is a tendency for the socially adjusted children to make slightly higher scores on the Porteus Maze Test than they make on the Stanford Binet, and conversely, for maladjusted children to make lower scores on the Porteus Maze Test than they make on the Stanford Binet. The same groups show no significant differences in relative scores by the Stanford Binet and the Healy 11 Pictorial Completion Test. "If we may assume that the Pictorial Completion tests apperception in the social field, we may conclude that the social difficulty of these children is not caused by inability to comprehend or interpret the world about them, but is due, at least in part, to the inability to meet the exigencies of new situations." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)