Children's embedded figures test and matching familiar figures test-20: factorial structure for boys and girls from 6 to 11 years old.
The factorial structure of two tests of cognitive style (the Children's Embedded Figures Test and the Matching Familiar Figures Test-20) and one test of cognitive ability (Raven Progressive Matrices) was examined in this study with a sample of 337 boys and 287 girls between ages 6 and 11 years. Factor I related to Impulsivity and Factor II related to cognitive ability and disembedding skills, which were stable across age groups and sex and accounted for 84.6% of variance.
Amador-Campos
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Departament de Personalitat, Avaluació i Tractament Psicològic, Facultat de Psicologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. jamador@psi.ub.es
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D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010553:Personality Development; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results