Construct Validation of the Hand Test Withdrawal Score on Institutionalized Older Adults
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 51 (2), 595-598
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1980.51.2.595
Abstract
The Hand Test Withdrawal score was correlated with an independent criterion measure of general intactness, the Mental Status Questionnaire, for a sample of 57 “normal,” institutionalized, elderly ( M age = 77.26 yr.) to establish the construct validity of the Withdrawal score for older adults. A Pearson r of .43 ( p < .001) was obtained, suggesting that the Withdrawal score is a valid measure of mental status or general intactness for institutionalized older adults.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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