Measurement of Palmar Sweating: Effect of Repeated Measurement from the Same Area

Palmar Sweating as a Function of Failure in Preschool Children

“…The interfinger correlations ranged from .69 to .80 and are similar to those considered satisfactory for experimentation in other studies (Haywood & Shoemaker, 1963;Lore, 1966). Measurements from the middle right (Baseline) and the middle left finger (Criterion) were separated in time by roughly 2 min., and measurements from the middle left and the right ring finger (Terminal) were separated by roughly 5 min.…”

Palmar Sweating and Transitory Anxiety in Children

“…Palmar sweat prints (PSP) were 1A commercially produced kit, designed specifically for measuring palmar sweat, is available from Lab-Line Instruments, Inc., Chicago. Since Haywood and Shoemaker (1963) found a tendency for rapidly repeated measures from the of all four fingers and for the individual fingers. obtained on each of two successive days and for a third time after a 16day interval.…”

“…Each testing session was started at 9:30 A.M.; classroom activities immediately prior to and during testing were comparable in mental and physical effort. Haywood and Shoemaker (1963) investigated the reliability of fingers used interchangeably over periods of time up to 30 minutes. Once seated the palmar surfaces of the four fingers of the right hand were coated with the ferric chloride solution with a no.…”

Differential Sensitivity of Two Palmar Sweat Measures

“…A third aim was to estimate the stability over time of the person's palmar sweat response as measured by each method. Intraday sweat-print stability has been studied previously (Haywood & Shoemaker, 1963), but the reliability of either measure over longer periods has not been reported. A final aim was to determine the relationship between the sweatprint and sweat-weight measures.…”