Sex Defferences in Visual - Spatial Performance Among Ghanaian and Norwegian Adults  

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Kremer, Roderick M. ; Amponsah, Benyamin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcca) vol. 28 no. 1 (Jan. 1997), page 81-92.
Topik: Performance; cross cultural studies; adults; sexes; cognition & reasoning
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Sex differences in spatial ability among adults in western cultures aer widely acknowledged, but few studies have assessed visual - spatial ability in non - western subjects with tests that show the largest sex differences, and little is known whether effect sizes for different spatial ability categories are the same across cultures. This issue was addressed by using four visual spatial ability tests (water level, surface development, PMA space, and Vandenberg - Kuse) to collect data from university students in Ghana (n = 197) and Norway (n = 220). Expect for the surface development test, on which no sex difference appeared in either sample, and the effect sizes (r) were about medium, with no signficant between - nationality difference on individual tests. These results showed that patterns and magnitudes of sex differnces in spatial ailities were similar across cultures. The test inter correlation patterns in the two samples differed markedly, suggesting that the ability structure underlying spatial performance may be different in the two cultures.

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