Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Percept Mot Skills. 2013 Aug;117(1):1299-317. doi: 10.2466/10.22.25.pms.117x10z1.
Visual-motor skill is fundamental to human development and is an important component of psychological evaluations. The goal of the present study was to determine whether there is a correlation between visual-motor development, as measured by the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test (Bender test), and sexual maturity in adolescents, based on the Tanner Stages in Adolescents. 134 adolescents from 10 to 15 years of age participated in the study. The Bender test and the Raven's Progressive Matrices Test were employed. The measures were administered individually and information on sexual maturity and the presence of developmental disorders was collected from medical charts. The results of the Bender test were not affected by gender, age, schooling, or changes stemming from puberty, but were significantly affected by having repeated a school year and by developmental disorders. An association was found with Raven's scores. The Bender test proved sensitive to developmental disorders in adolescence. No association was found between visual-motor development and sexual maturity in adolescents.
视动技能是人类发展的基础，也是心理评估的重要组成部分。本研究的目的是确定青少年的视觉运动发育（通过贝德尔视觉运动格式塔测验[Bender 测试]测量）与性成熟之间是否存在相关性，依据的是青少年的 Tanner 阶段。134 名 10 至 15 岁的青少年参与了研究。采用了 Bender 测试和瑞文渐进矩阵测试。对这些测试进行了单独的测试，并从病历中收集了关于性成熟和发育障碍的信息。Bender 测试的结果不受性别、年龄、教育程度或青春期变化的影响，但与重读一年和发育障碍有显著关系。与瑞文的分数有相关性。Bender 测试对青少年的发育障碍很敏感。青少年的视觉运动发育与性成熟之间没有关联。
