A further investigation of the Porteus Maze Test as a discriminative measure in delinquency

Abstract

The present study is an outgrowth of a similar investigation made by Poull and Montgomery at the New York City Children's Hospital on Randall Island. The earlier study used data from subjects of the lower levels of intelligence; the present study uses groups from the normal and upper levels. The control group of 185 socially adjusted children tends to make a significantly higher average on the Mazes than on the Stanford-Binet, while the socially maladjusted group shows no significant difference in performance on these two tests. In comparing the average on the Porteus Mazes made by the socially adjusted subjects with that of the maladjusted subjects we find that the adjusted group makes a significantly higher average than the group of delinquents and that this difference is completely reliable. The difference in favor of the socially adjusted is even more marked and more highly reliable with those subjects on the higher levels of intelligence (IQ of 80 or over). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)