Penn N E, Jacob T C, Brown M
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla 92093.
Percept Mot Skills. 1988 Jun;66(3):847-54. doi: 10.2466/pms.1988.66.3.847.
The Gorham Proverbs Test was administered to 278 black participants residing in a large metropolitan area in Southern California. Respondents were also asked to indicate whether they were familiar with each of the 40 proverbs in the test. Scores were significantly affected by respondents' ages, education, and perceived childhood socioeconomic status. Familiarity with a proverb increased the probability of its correct interpretation. Familiarity of proverbs and attempts to interpret them were significantly associated, that is, respondents tended not to attempt interpretation of unfamiliar proverbs. The number of familiar proverbs per test was not significantly associated with respondents' test scores. The mean Abstract score obtained in this study was comparable to mean scores previously reported in the literature, suggesting that ethnic differences do not significantly affect performance on the Proverbs Test.
对居住在南加州一个大都市地区的278名黑人参与者进行了戈勒姆谚语测试。还要求受访者指出他们是否熟悉测试中的40条谚语。分数受到受访者年龄、教育程度和感知到的童年社会经济地位的显著影响。对谚语的熟悉程度增加了正确解释它的可能性。谚语的熟悉程度和解释谚语的尝试之间存在显著关联，也就是说，受访者往往不会尝试解释不熟悉的谚语。每次测试中熟悉的谚语数量与受访者的测试分数没有显著关联。本研究中获得的抽象分数平均值与文献中先前报道的平均分数相当，这表明种族差异不会显著影响谚语测试的表现。
