title: The Canter Background Interference Procedure (BIP): effects of demographic variables on diagnosis.
abstract: This paper reports a positive association between demographic variables and Canter BIP diagnostic classification. Ss are 209 middle-aged men and include psychiatric and medical patients and non-patients. To evaluate the joint effects of the demographic variables, a discriminate analysis was performed on the total sample. Race and educational level alone predicted BIP diagnosis in 67% of the cases. While none of the demographic variables was related significantly to BIP diagnosis when a discriminate analysis was performed on whites alone, age and educational level were related significantly to BIP diagnosis when a discriminate analysis was performed on blacks alone.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D001538:Bender-Gestalt Test; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004522:Educational Status; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D008923:Missouri; D012424:Rural Population; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014505:Urban Population