A COMPARISON OF 4 WAIS-R SHORT-FORMS IN PATIENTS REFERRED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS

In recent years, several short forms of the Wechsler Adult Intelligenc e Scale-Revised have been developed to provide a more cost-effective m eans of estimating intellectual abilities. The present study examined the ability of four short forms to estimate intellectual functioning i n a sample of medical center (61 male) and state hospital(69 female) p atients referred for psychological/neuropsychological assessments. Alt hough all four short forms obtained high correlations with Full Scale IQ, the seven-subtest short form(Ward, 1990) provided greater accuracy with respect to IQ estimation and intelligence classification based o n Wechsler's (1981) schema.