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Age, Education and Intellectual Quotient Influences: Structural Equation Modeling on the study of Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT)

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Joice Dickel Segabinazi Open the ORCID record for Joice Dickel Segabinazi [Opens in a new window] ,
Josiane Pawlowski Open the ORCID record for Josiane Pawlowski [Opens in a new window] ,
Adriana Mokwa Zanini Open the ORCID record for Adriana Mokwa Zanini [Opens in a new window] ,
Gabriela Peretti Wagner Open the ORCID record for Gabriela Peretti Wagner [Opens in a new window] ,
Juliana Burges Sbicigo Open the ORCID record for Juliana Burges Sbicigo [Opens in a new window] ,
Clarissa Marceli Trentini Open the ORCID record for Clarissa Marceli Trentini [Opens in a new window] ,
Claudio Simon Hutz Open the ORCID record for Claudio Simon Hutz [Opens in a new window] ,
Jerusa Fumagalli de Salles Open the ORCID record for Jerusa Fumagalli de Salles [Opens in a new window]  and
Denise Ruschel Bandeira Open the ORCID record for Denise Ruschel Bandeira [Opens in a new window]
Joice Dickel Segabinazi*
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Josiane Pawlowski
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Universidad de Iberoamérica (Costa Rica)
Adriana Mokwa Zanini
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Gabriela Peretti Wagner
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (Brazil)
Juliana Burges Sbicigo
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Clarissa Marceli Trentini
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Claudio Simon Hutz
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Jerusa Fumagalli de Salles
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Denise Ruschel Bandeira
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Joice Dickel Segabinazi. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. Curso de Psicologia. Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). E-mail: jsegabinazi@gmail.com
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Abstract

This study searched for sociodemographic influences on visual memory and visuoconstructive ability in healthy and clinical samples evaluated with Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) in two studies. In Study 1, we searched for changes related to age in children, adolescents, adults and elderly on the performance of the BVRT. In Study 2, we investigated the relations among age, years of education and intellectual quotient (IQ) on the performance of the BVRT using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Participants were 624 individuals aged between six and 89 years old (M = 25.40; SD = 22.34) from the normatization and evidence validity studies at Brazil. We used a sociodemographic questionnaire, BVRT and IQ measure was estimated. Study 1 has shown a performance similar to the developmental graphics with a U-inverted pattern in relation to age: An increase of the visual memory ability in the children and adolescent groups as age increases, a tendency of a decrease in the performance in the adult group that intensifies in the elderly group. Study 2 found that the model for the BVRT performance tested by SEM denoted satisfactory goodness-of-fit indexes, χ2/gl = 2.67, p < .001; CFI = .92; TLI = .93; RMSEA = .004, 90% CI = [.03, .05];WLSMV = 1.79, and corroborated the theoretical assumption. The SEM model confirmed in this study highlight the strong role of years of education in the prediction of BVRT scores.

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Ageeducationstructural equation modelingvisual memoryvisuo-constructive ability

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The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 23 , 2020 , e27
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© Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid 2020

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Conflicts of Interest. None

This work was funded by Programa de Excelência Acadêmica (PROEX) from Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).

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