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Entwicklung von drei Parallelversionen des Kategorienwechsels des Regensburger Wortflüssigkeitstests

Published Online:March 10, 2015https://doi.org/10.1024/1016-264X/a000131

Abstract

Eine Vielzahl psychischer Erkrankungen ist von Defiziten der Exekutivfunktionen begleitet, die häufig durch Wortflüssigkeitsaufgaben erfasst werden. Dabei kommen überwiegend einfache Wortflüssigkeitsaufgaben zum Einsatz, obwohl Aufgaben zum Kategorienwechsel höhere Anforderungen an die Exekutivfunktionen stellen. Untertests zum Kategorienwechsel enthält bisher lediglich der Regensburger Wortflüssigkeitstest. Um den Kategorienwechsel in wiederholten Messungen der Testleistung einsetzen zu können, haben wir drei neue Versionen der Untertests zum phonematischen und semantischen Kategorienwechsel des Regensburger Wortflüssigkeitstest entwickelt und an 58 gesunden Probanden validiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigten, dass die Anzahl der generierten Wörter in allen fünf Versionen gleich und die Paralleltestreliabilität mit Werten zwischen 0.82 und 0.91 hoch war. Die fünf Versionen des phonematischen und semantischen Kategorienwechsels können in einer Vielzahl klinischer und wissenschaftlicher Settings eingesetzt werden.


Development of Three Alternate Forms for the Assessment of Alternating Phonemic and Semantic Verbal Fluency

A variety of psychiatric disorders are accompanied by pronounced executive dysfunctions. Verbal fluency tests are often used to assess these dysfunctions. The majority of studies did not include alternating verbal fluency task, although they make greater demands on executive processes than simple verbal fluency tasks. Up to date, the Regensburger Wortflüssigkeitstest is the only test procedure which includes alternating verbal fluency tasks, but the subtests only exist in two alternate forms. In order to provide a set of alternating verbal fluency tasks, we developed three new alternate forms of the alternating verbal fluency subtests of the Regensburger Wortflüssigkeitstest. Fifty-eight healthy subjects were included in the study. The mean number of correct words did not differ between the five versions of the phonemic and semantic alternating fluency subtests. The herein described versions of the alternating verbal fluency tasks are suitable for the use in a variety of clinical or research settings.

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