Embedded Figures Test performance before and after childbirth
- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 75 (1) , 81-88
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1984.tb02791.x
Abstract
Performance on the Embedded Figures Test was investigated before and after childbirth when biochemical changes are marked. Females comprising a first experimental group were tested in their 38th to 40th week of pregnancy. Their husbands who comprised a male control group were tested concurrently. The females were again tested in the sixth week following delivery. There was a significant (P < 0·001) test‐retest difference in EFT scores. Testing of a second female experimental group, to investigate the possibility of a practice effect, indicated that a factor over and above the practice effect was operating in the scores of the first experimental group.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: