Suitability of published neuropsychological test norms for urban African secondary school students in South Africa

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1413-1425

  Skuy, Mervyn ^a   Schutte, Enid ^a   Fridjhon, Peter ^a   O'Carroll, Shelley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cognitive neuropsychological measures; Cultural ethnic differences; Norms, South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001054021     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00123-9     Document Type: Article

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