Evidence of Concurrent Validity for Use the Pfister Test with Children of Ceará

• Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Lucila Moraes
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Lopes, Érica Ive Xavier, Marques, Tábatha Maranhão, Targino, Rebeca de Moura
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/10064
• topic: validade do teste; Teste das Pirâmides Coloridas; psicologia do desenvolvimento; infância; evaluación psicológica; validación de test; Test de las Pirámides Coloridas; psicología del desarrollo; infancia; psychological assessment; Test validity; Color Pyramid Test; Developmental Psychology; Childhood

The aim of this study was to find evidence of concurrent validity for the use of the Pfister Colored Pyramids Test (CPT) in the psychological evaluation of children with different levels of development. The sample consisted of 197 children from Fortaleza, Brazil, 54% being female, aged 6 years to 11 years 6 months (M=8.56, SD=1.47). The ANOVA test was used to compare the CPT performance of three age groups (6-7 years, 8-9 years and 10-11 years). The incidence of variables related to lower emotional or cognitive development and difficulty in elaborating the received stimulation (pure carpet, carpet with starting order and affective arousal syndrome) was significantly increased in the younger children, while the older children presented an increase in the indicator associated with maturation in dealing with emotions and defensive maneuvers (layer formation), corresponding to what is expected according to the development theories. The study provided evidence of validity for the use of the CPT with children of Ceará and corroborated others studies that investigated evidence of validity for the use of the CPT with children.