Pre-illness intelligence of mental hospital patients.
- 1 January 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Consulting Psychology
- Vol. 20 (4) , 297-300
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0047921
Abstract
Army General Classification Test (AGCT) scores were obtained for army veterans of World War II in 510 cases. The AGCT was taken prior to the onset of acute mental illness in this group. The results were then compared with AGCT data from army inductees. Among the findings was the fact that no definite relationship could be obtained between intelligence, as measured by the AGCT, and maladjustment; "within the range of intelligence sampled by this study no particular level of intelligence appeared as optimal for psychological adjustment" and "schizophrenics, other than paranoid and catatonic types, tended to have obtained low AGCT scores . . . manic-depressive psychotics tended to have obtained high AGCT scores.".Keywords
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