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Gender, Age, Grade and Socio-Economic Status Differences On Raven Colored Progressive Matrices

    Shagufta Aziz

    National Institute of Psychology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Ghazala N. Farooqi

    National Institute of Psychology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan


Received
07 Sep, 1990
Accepted
04 Nov, 1991
Published
31 Dec, 1991

This study was designed to determine the effect of gender, age, grade and social class on the intellectual ability of children aged 6 to 8 years. 102 students of first, second, and third grades with equal number of boys and girls were taken from different schools of Islamabad. The subjects were divided into three socio-economic status (SES) groups i.e., upper, middle, and lower on the basis of monthly family income. The Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM) was used as a measure of intellectual ability. The reliability estimate of RCPM was .81 for the present sample. t-test showed that there was no significant difference between the performance of girls and boys on RCPM. One way analysis of variance indicated that grade and SES had a significant effect, whereas the effect of age on the performance on RCPM was not significant. Children of grade 3 obtained higher RCPM scores than children of grade 1 and 2. RCPM scores of children belonging to the upper SES were higher than that of the middle and the SES.

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APA-7 Style
Aziz, S., Farooqi, G.N. (1991). Gender, Age, Grade and Socio-Economic Status Differences On Raven Colored Progressive Matrices. Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research, 6(3-4), 91-102. https://pjpr.scione.com/cms/abstract.php?id=587

ACS Style
Aziz, S.; Farooqi, G.N. Gender, Age, Grade and Socio-Economic Status Differences On Raven Colored Progressive Matrices. Pak. J. Psychol. Res 1991, 6, 91-102. https://pjpr.scione.com/cms/abstract.php?id=587

AMA Style
Aziz S, Farooqi GN. Gender, Age, Grade and Socio-Economic Status Differences On Raven Colored Progressive Matrices. Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research. 1991; 6(3-4): 91-102. https://pjpr.scione.com/cms/abstract.php?id=587

Chicago/Turabian Style
Aziz, Shagufta, and Ghazala N. Farooqi. 1991. "Gender, Age, Grade and Socio-Economic Status Differences On Raven Colored Progressive Matrices" Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research 6, no. 3-4: 91-102. https://pjpr.scione.com/cms/abstract.php?id=587