@article{ref1,
title="Delinquents and the Tapping Test",
journal="Journal of clinical psychology (Hoboken)",
year="1977",
author="Andrew, J. M.",
volume="33",
number="3",
pages="786-791",
abstract="This study provided Tapping Test norms for young legal offenders by measuring 54 Anglo male probationers (35 juveniles, 19 adults) in Study I, and 127 probationers aged 12-17 within eight sex/age/ethnicity subgroups in Study II. The Tapping Test, a measure of fine-motor speed, forms part of the Halstead-Reitan battery for neuropsychodiagnosis. Study I results suggest that tapping speed related to age for juvenile male delinquents, p less than .01; for adults, speed relates to IQ, p less than .05. Study II results suggest that Anglo females--but not non-Anglo females-- tap slower than males, p less than .01. The results were only paritally consistent with those of prior studies. Future researchers may wish to: (a) refine norms by appropriate adjustments for age and IQ; (b) investigate why Anglo female delinquents were especially slow on the Tapping Test; and (c) evaluate to what extent false positives may be provoked on this test by depression rather than organicity.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-9762",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}