Predictive applicability of the wais with psychiatric patients in a vocational rehabilitation setting

Relationship Between Intelligence and Occupational Adjustment and Functioning: A Literature Review

“…Although much of the research has focused on individuals with mental retardation, several studies have investigated the relationship between intelligence and the occupational functioning among individuals who are learning disabled (neurological impairment is included within this category) and emotionally disturbed (institutionalized psychiatric patients are within this category). Webster (1974) conducted a study with individuals who were neurologically impaired, character disordered, neurotic, and psychotic to see whether the WAIS Block Design (BD) and Object Assembly (OA) subtests would predict performance on practical work tasks. The results suggested that for psychiatric populations performing work tasks, performance ability was more predictive of positive supervisory ratings than was verbal ability, The introduction of verbal ability actually tended to depress cor-relations.…”

Use of neuropsychological tests to predict adult patients' everyday functioning.

“…Several findings supported this conclusion: (a) differences in measured intelligence between military rank groupings, with officers having the highest scores, then sergeants, and then lower ranking enlisted men in that order; (b) men of above average intelligence were generally able to complete officers' and noncommissioned officers' training schools, whereas those of lower intelligence were not; and (c) for enlisted men the rank-order correlation between their intelligence and officers' ratings of their military value was .54. Webster (1974) studied the vocational workshop performance of 160 psychiatric patients who were divided into four diagnostic categories (psychotic, neurotic, character disorder, and neurologically impaired). Attempts were made to predict ratings of "bench work" skills using WAIS results.…”

Time and money for vocational rehabilitation of clients with psychotic and psychoneurotic disabilities

“…Research with psychiatric populations has been mixed, but has identified several possible correlates of vocational behaviours. Full scale WAIS and selected subscales (particularly performance) were moderately correlated with sheltered workshop performance for both neurotic and psychotic groups (Webster, 1974). However, Lowe (1967) was largely unable to predict post-psychiatric hospital work adjustment from the WAIS, MMPI, or Rorschach.…”