Visual spatial perception and paternal deprivation |
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Authors: | Alan G Krasnoff James T Walker |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-St Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St Louis, MO 63121, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | College men and women who were father deprived for at least 1 year from birth to 18 years of age or non-deprived were compared on the Spatial Relations Test of the Differential Aptitude Tests (DAT), the Identical Blocks Test (IBT) and the Water Level Test (WLT). There was a significant sex difference favoring men—as expected—on the IBT and WLT but not on the DAT. There was no significant effect of father deprivation on the mean performance on any test but there was a correlation between years of deprivation and WLT performance for men (r = 0.48,P < 0.001). No other correlation between deprivation and test performance was significant. |
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