Biomedical subjects

S Z Dudek

Publications and source records attributed to S Z Dudek.

18 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1993

Cumulative and proximal influences on the social environment and children's creative potential.

The influences of socioeconomic status (SES), maturation, school, and sex on creative potential were examined by administering the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking to 1,445 children. Comparisons of means indicated that scores increased with SES, sixth-grade children scored slightly higher than fifth-grade children, and girls in general earned higher scores than boys. Additionally, the school setting and in particular the classroom atmosphere seemed to be far more important to creative potential than has been previously acknowledged. Implications for the concept of creativity and the adequacy of tests as indicators of divergent thinking are discussed.

Aptitude Tests↗

PubMed1987

Chronic learning problems and maturation.

An analysis of test scores of a longitudinal sample of normal children, who placed in the lowest quartile of the class on the California Achievement Test and children in the highest quartile yielded significant differences on three perceptual-motor tests and on Piaget's preoperational and precausal tests at Kindergarten level. Although matched for IQ in Kindergarten, significant IQ differences appeared in Grade 1 and continued to increase over 5 yr., as those on other tests. Cattell's Early School Personality Questionnaire indicated that low achievers were significantly less mature and more tense and anxious than high achievers from Grades 1 through 5. Maturational lag is hypothesized for retardation of learning.

Child↗

PubMed1983

Stability of intellect and personality in schizophrenia.

A group of 52 chronic schizophrenic patients (mean age 41) currently maintained on follow-up treatment at an outpatient clinic were re-evaluated 8.5 years after initial treatment at the Allan Memorial Institute. The instruments used were the Spitzer Mental Status Schedule (MSS), the verbal WAIS, Rorschach and several thinking disorder tests. A verbal IQ finding of 1.4 points of increase (n.s.) indicates that no intellectual deterioration has occurred as measured by the WAIS. The thinking disorder tests, however, reveal considerable deficit. The Rorschach shows no evidence of personality change although there is evidence of increasing personality impoverishment, as evident in a progressive flattening of affect, and an increasing withdrawal and isolation. These inferences are supported by case history data and by the MSS psychiatric rating scale.

Adult↗

PubMed1975

Regression in the service of the ego in young children.

Analysis of studies of primary process thinking as manifested in Rorschach and TAT production of young children (ages 6 to 10) indicate that children show approximately the same amount of primary process production as do young adults (48% vs 54%). However, this primary process does not appear to be clearly related to the child's creative, scholastic, or perceptual-motor development as measured by appropriate tests. High levels of primary process appear to be significantly related only to the negative qualities of the personality, that is, to high levels of tension, anxiety, and poor control of aggression. It is possible that young children have not yet learned to use it in the service of the ego, although they do not seem to be encumbered by its presence.

Child↗

PubMed1972