Effect of Stress on Field Dependence

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-122
Author(s):  
Viktor Sarris ◽  
Edgar Heineken ◽  
Hildegard Peters
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Interindividual Variability ◽  
Stress Conditions ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Field Dependency ◽  
Control Situation ◽  
Consistent Manner ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

60 subjects were tested in the rod-and-frame test under flicker conditions (stress). As compared to scores in a control situation (no flicker), the rod-and-frame scores were large under stress and increased monotonically during the session. Furthermore, both intra- and interindividual variability of rod-and-frame performance changed under stress conditions in a consistent manner. The general results, which clearly point to a reliable influence of stress on field dependency, are discussed within the methodological framework of Witkin's theory of perception and personality.

Comparison of Selected Measures of Field Dependence

1977 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 861-862
Author(s):  
Karen L. Fry ◽  
David S. Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Zero Order ◽  
Field Dependency ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

An examination was made to determine the extent to which the Flexibility of Closure subtest from Hakstian and Cattell's Comprehensive Ability Battery could be substituted for Witkin's Rod-and-frame Test of field dependency. Although the data for 48 subjects (aged 11 to 17 yr.) yielded a significant zero-order correlation between the two tests for females, it was judged insufficient to warrant substitution of the former for the latter test.

Spanish Children's Scores on Children's Embedded Figures and Rod and Frame Tests

1993 ◽  
Vol 76 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1259-1263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio Amador-Campos ◽  
Teresa Kirchner-Nebot
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Measure Field ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

The Children's Embedded Figures Test and the Rod and Frame Test were administered to 179 boys and 110 girls of an average age of 9.03 years to measure field dependence-independence. No significant gender-related differences were found on either test. Scores on these tests were moderately and significantly correlated.

Perceptual and Interpersonal Measures of Field Dependence

1965 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe B. Alexander ◽  
Howard E. Gudeman
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Specific Relationship ◽  
Measures Of Dependence ◽  
Dependence Measures ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Larger Sample ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

This study was concerned with the relationship between perceptual and interpersonal measures of dependence for a sample of 60 male Ss. Four groups of alcoholics, one group of hospitalized psychiatric patients, and a group of normals were compared on the Rod and Frame Test and three laboratory interpersonal tasks to evaluate the hypothesis that perceptual and interpersonal dependence measures are significantly related. The results only partially confirmed the hypothesis. The over-all correlation was significant, as was the over-all correlation for four groups of alcoholics. Only two of the six subgroup correlations, however, were significant. These results suggest the need for further study, using larger sample sizes, to determine the specific relationship of the two variables.

Field Dependence among Male and Female Alcoholics: II. Norms for the Rod-and-Frame Test

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. Jacobson ◽  
Ann Van Dyke ◽  
Theodore G. Sternbach ◽  
Russell Brethauer
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Field Dependence ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Field Dependent ◽  
Perceptual Style ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

402 males and 160 females hospitalized for treatment of alcoholism were tested in a standardized manner on the Rod-and-frame test as a means of supplementing an earlier report of normative data on perceptual style among male alcoholics. When their performance was contrasted with that of normal and psychiatric samples, alcoholics were clearly the most field dependent of all groups studied. Statistically significant sex differences justify the need for separate norms for males and females.

Validation of a Children's Group Embedded Figures Test

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1259-1263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlaine E. Lockheed ◽  
Abigail M. Harris ◽  
Meredith K. Stone ◽  
Mary Lee Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Concurrent Validation ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Body Concept ◽  
Group Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

This paper describes the development and concurrent validation of a group-administered measure of field dependence for children. Subjects were 34 girls and 39 boys in the fourth-grade, and 35 girls and 40 boys in the fifth-grade. This measure was correlated with the Articulation of Body Concept measure for fourth-grade girls ( r = —.42) and boys ( r = —.59), and for fifth-grade girls ( r = —.64) and boys ( r = —.46). It was also correlated with scores on the Portable Rod-and-Frame Test for girls ( r = —.51) and boys ( r = —.39) at the fourth-grade.

Selected Perceptual and Personality Variables Related to Orientation to Clothing

1973 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 843-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne P. Kernaleguen
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Reward Seeking ◽  
Body Boundary ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

56 college Ss were classified into 4 groups on the basis of sex and extreme scores in field dependence. They were compared on performance and directionality of error on the Rod-and-frame Test; 2 measures of body boundary, namely, barrier and penetration; masculinity—feminity; psychological security and 2 orientations to clothing. Significant main effects of sex were discerned for field dependence and penetration while significance was approached for both a reward-seeking orientation to clothing and barrier. There was a significant effect of field dependence on directionality of error on the Rod-and-frame Test. A reward-seeking orientation did not correlate with field dependence; however, seeking rewards covaried with barrier for both men and women. There was an association between a reward-seeking and dressing-to-be-different-from-others orientation to clothing.

Assessment of Field Dependence in Young Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 479-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideo Kojima
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Field Dependence ◽  
Scoring Method ◽  
Correlation Pattern ◽  
Spatial Concept ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Measuring Field ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

In a series of exploratory studies to develop instruments for measuring field dependence in young children, a total of 312 Japanese middle-class children, ages 5 to 6, served as subjects. Without changing the essential nature of the original test, the geometric Embedded-figures test attained relatively high internal consistency (KR-20 in the .80's) and stability ( R = .83 to .52, at intervals of 1.5 to 13 mo.). Correlation pattern between the Embedded Figures Test and Wechsler subscales similar to that of older subjects was influenced by the speed factor in embedded figures and Wechsler performance scales. Correlation between Kato's portable Rod-and-frame test and embedded figures was significant only in boys. In addition, the correlation pattern between the rod and frame and the preschool Wechsler was not consistent with Witkin's conceptualization. A newly developed darkroom Rod-and-Frame Test correlated with embedded figures for both sexes. Additional analyses indicated the need for more refined instructions to subjects regarding the concept of upright. Some children had more than one anchoring point for responding. Nyborg's scoring method and the relationship of Piagetian spatial concept to rod-and-frame performance are discussed.

Field-Dependence, Neuroticism, and Extraversion

1974 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Sell ◽  
Jane Johnson Duckworth
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Field Dependence ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Optimal Weights ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

A multiple regression analysis was used to predict Maudsley Personality Inventory extraversion scores from the rod-and-frame test, embedded-figures test, and Maudsley neuroticism scores of 66 undergraduate males. The results indicated that optimal weights of the neuroticism, embedded-figures, and rod-and-frame test upright scores contributed to prediction.

Field Dependence-Independence in Male Engineering, Science and Education Students

1980 ◽  
Vol 51 (3_suppl2) ◽  
pp. 1289-1290 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Lotwick ◽  
A. Simon ◽  
L. O. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Intelligence Test ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Field Independence ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

Subjects, all full-time polytechnic students studying engineering, science and education ( ns = 64, 10, 17), took the AH5 Intelligence Test and the modified rod-and-frame test. Significant differences between education students and others were found, indicating greater field-independence for the former, but no such differences were found between engineering and science students.

Susceptibility to Motion Sickness and Field Dependence-Independence as Measured with the Rod and Frame Test

1976 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles S. Mirabile, jr. ◽  
Bernard C. Glueck ◽  
Charles F. Stroebel
Keyword(s):  
Motion Sickness ◽  
Field Dependence ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame
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