Performance on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Among Adolescents in Taiwan: Norms, Factorial Structure, and Relation to Schizotypy

• Published in: Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 69 - 79
• Main Authors: Lin, Chaucer C.H., Chen, Wei J., Yang, Hao-Jan, Hsiao, Chuhsing K., Tien, Allen Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Colchester Taylor & Francis Group 01.02.2000; Taylor & Francis
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Developmental psychology; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Neuropsychological Tests - statistics & numerical data; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychometrics; Reproducibility of Results; Risk Factors; Schizophrenia - diagnosis; Schizophrenic Psychology; Schizotypal Personality Disorder - diagnosis; Schizotypal Personality Disorder - psychology; Taiwan; Asia; Taiwan; Human; Executive function; Factor analysis; Neuropsychological test; Schizophrenia; Psychometrics; Cognition; Vulnerability; Personality disorder; Standards; Test validation; Schizotypal personality; Wisconsin Card Sorting Test; Adolescent; Cognitive development

The aims of this study were to assess developmental trends in performance on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) among 817 randomly selected adolescents aged 13-15 years, and to explore WCST performance factor structure and relationship to schizotypy. The results showed that of the nine WCST inde...