title: Redundancy in the Pascal-Suttell Bender-Gestalt scoring system: discriminating organicity with only one design.
abstract: The eight Bender-Gestalt (B-G) designs scored by the Pascal-Suttell (P-S) system proved to be highly intercorrelated, while the ninth component, the Configuration score, was modestly related to only design one. A factor analysis of the eight designs revealed one significant factor, which was interpreted as reflecting general reproductive accuracy rather than special gestalt properties of the drawings. While the P-S Total score could discriminate between organic (n = 52) and nonorganic (n = 52) clinical outpatient groups with a 74% hit rate, only one design (seven) yielded a 73% discrimination. It was suggested that a quick and reliable method for screening for organicity with the B-G would be to calculate the P-S score for design seven only.
authors.affiliation: Forest Institute, Huntsville, Alabama.
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Marsico
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001538:Bender-Gestalt Test / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011594:Psychometrics