Level of schizophrenic thinking in adults and their visual-motor performance

ABSTRACT

The present study aims to determine the relationship between schizophrenic thinking and Visual-Motor Performance of Adults. It was hypothesized that there could be a negative correlation between schizophrenic thinking and Visual-Motor performance. The sample consisted of 98 adults [41 males and 57 females], whose age range was from 19-45 years and all of them belonged to middle socioeconomic level. In order to assess schizophrenic thinking and Visual-Motor Performance, Whitaker index of Schizophrenic Thinking test [Whitaker, 1980] and Slosson Visual Motor Performance Test for children and adults [Slosson, 1996] were administered. For the quantitative analysis, Pearson Product Moment correlation was applied. The results were consistent with the hypothesis, regarding the predictive relationship between both the variables, which indicates that adults with higher trends of Schizophrenic thinking, have lower Visual-Motor performance and adults with lower trends of Schizophrenic thinking. have higher Visual-Motor performance