Multimethod Examination of Field-Dependence and Impulsivity

1982 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 655-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Intellectual Ability ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Personality Research ◽  
General Intellectual Ability ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Form Field ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Figure Drawings

This study examined in 94 college students the relationship between field-dependence and impulsivity with two measures of each construct. Impulsivity was assessed both as a cognitive style and as a personal lifestyle with the Matching Familiar Figures Test and the Impulsivity Scale of the Personality Research Form. Field-dependence was assessed with the Embedded Figures Test and the Articulation-of-Body-Concept Scale for Human Figure Drawings. Partial correlation coefficients were computed between the measures controlling for the effects of general intellectual ability on some measures. Results indicated that (1) the two measures of field-dependence were significantly related to each other, (2) the two measures of impulsivity were not significantly related to each other, and (3) the measures of field-dependence were, for the most part, unrelated to measures of impulsivity.

Psychological Differentiation and Mobility as Related to Creativity

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 831-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Del Gaudio
Keyword(s):  
Word Association ◽  
Psychological Differentiation ◽  
Moderator Variable ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Object Sorting ◽  
Figure Drawings ◽  
Remote Associates Test ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Modes Of Thought

To study the relationship of psychological differentiation and creativity while taking into account the dimension of mobility and the association between differentiation and mobility, 186 male undergraduates were given the Embedded Figures Test and human figure drawings in order to assess psychological differentiation. Also, mobility, the ability to shift on demand from conventional, common modes of thought to unusual, less regulated thinking, was measured by means of word association and object sorting. The Revised Biographical Inventory and the Remote Associates Test assessed creativity. Results showed a tendency for more differentiated individuals to be more mobile. Performance on the remote associates was consistently related to the differentiation measure as predicted as were scores on human drawings. Over-all, creativity was more closely related to differentiation than was mobility. The data did not support the predicted interaction between psychological differentiation and creativity with mobility as a moderator variable.

scholarly journals Cognitive Differentiation in a Geriatric Population

1974 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 1071-1075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R. Tramer ◽  
Eduard H. Schludermann
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Patients ◽  
Field Dependence ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Intellectual Ability ◽  
Theoretical Expectation ◽  
Geriatric Population ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Embedded Figures

This study tested the differentiation hypothesis in a geriatric population. 94 male, elderly patients were administered the Colored Progressive Matrices (a test of intellectual ability), the Children's Embedded-figures Test, and a socializing scale. A correlation of 0.58 ( p < .01) between field dependence and intellectual ability was similar to that previously obtained with younger age groups. A positive correlation of 0.22 ( p < .05) between field dependence and socializing was contrary to theoretical expectation.

Strength of Association between Sex and Field Dependence

1978 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary J. Allen ◽  
Mary E. Cholet
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Field Dependence ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Strength Of Association ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

An index of the strength of association between sex and each of two measures of field dependence, the Rod and Frame Test and Embedded Figures Test, was calculated based upon reported significant sex differences on these measures. Median ω 2 values based upon 20 rod-and-frame results and 18 embedded-figures results are .11 for the former and .12 for the latter. It appears that gender accounts for less than 15% of the variance in field-dependence scores.

Field Dependence and Facial Recognition

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curt Hoffman ◽  
Spencer Kagan
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Field Independent ◽  
Field Dependent ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Human Faces ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

29 male and 28 female undergraduates were administered two measures of Witkin's field-dependence dimension—the Portable Rod-and-frame Test and the Group Embedded-figures Test—and a test of facial recognition. Field-independent males were significantly more accurate in the recognition of photographed human faces than field-dependent males. Field-independent females were also more accurate than field-dependent females, although the relation was nonsignificant. While it has often been claimed that field-dependent individuals remember faces better, the results of the present study, as well as others which have examined this relationship, support the opposite conclusion.

Psychological Differentiation in Passively Oriented Children

1972 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 703-706
Author(s):  
Jean Frances Ladkin ◽  
Carol L. Barker
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Psychological Differentiation ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Body Concept ◽  
Human Figure Drawings ◽  
Figure Drawings ◽  
Two Age Groups

Level of psychological differentiation was investigated in boys ( N = 30) categorized as Passive-Aggressive or Normal, and subdivided into two age groups: 6 to 8 and 10 to 12 yr. old. Differentiation was defined in terms of two instruments developed by Witkin, the Children's Embedded Figures Test, and the Sophistication of Body-concept Scale used with human figure drawings. Significantly lower levels of differentiation were observed for Passive-Aggressive Ss over Normal Ss and for younger Ss over older Ss.

Effects of Brief Sensory Deprivation and Somatic Concentration on Two Measures of Field Dependence

1970 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 683-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
George D. Kurie ◽  
Arnold M. Mordkoff
Keyword(s):  
Field Dependence ◽  
Sensory Deprivation ◽  
Control Period ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Embedded Figures Test ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Concentration Condition ◽  
Rod And Frame Test ◽  
Rod And Frame

An experiment was performed to substantiate the indirect evidence that brief sensory deprivation (SD) has different effects on two measures of field dependence, the rod-and-frame test (RFT) and the embedded-figures test (EFT) and specifically to investigate whether it is the increased awareness of somatic activity which is involved in the more veridical RFT performance while having no effect on EFT. The RFT and EFT were administered to three groups of Ss before and after one group had been submitted to 1 hr. of SD, a second group to 1 hr. of somatic concentration, and a third to a control period. The results supported the above hypothesis in that the greatest changes in RFT performance occurred in the somatic concentration condition which were significantly greater than those obtained in the SD condition, these in turn were significantly greater than those occurring in the control condition. No significant effects were obtained with respect to the EFT.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document