Comparing the latent structure of Raven's educational coloured progressive matrices among young children and older adults: A preliminary study.

Objective: The aim of the present study was the comparison of the general cognitive ability (g) between young children and older adults through the investigation of the latent structure qualitative changes in [R] Educational Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM) from age to age, using Confirmatory Factor Analyses (CFA) and testing a conventional unidimensional model.

Method: The sample consisted of 42 kindergarten and 56 elementary school students (age range: 5-8 years) and 118 new-old adults and 27 old-old adults (age range: 61-88 years). The participants' cognitive abilities were examined in: (a) the Raven's Educational CPM test, and (b) the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).

Aspects of perceived stigma: the Stigma Inventory for Mental Illness, its development, latent structure and psychometric properties.

Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a new brief and easy to administer self-stigma scale for mental illness as well as to assess the correlations between self-stigma and psychopathology of chronic schizophrenic patients.

Methods: The Stigma Inventory for Mental Illness (SIMI) was administered to 100 outpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia. Psychopathology and overall functioning were assessed with the Positive and Negative Symptom Scale (PANSS) and Global Assessment Scale (GAS), respectively.

Altered eye-to-foot coordination in standing parkinsonian patients during large gaze and whole-body reorientations.

We investigated whether turning problems in Parkinson's disease may be the result of abnormal horizontal multisegmental angular coordination. Ten mildly affected patients and controls stood upright and voluntarily reoriented eyes and body to illuminated targets of eccentricities up to ±180 degrees. The effects of target location, visibility, and predictability on movement parameters were evaluated.