Personality not intelligence or educational achievement differentiate university students who access special needs for learning disabilities

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Michael A. Persinger
S. G. Tiller
Cite this article:  Persinger, M., & Tiller, S. (1999). Personality not intelligence or educational achievement differentiate university students who access special needs for learning disabilities. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 27(1), 1-10.


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University students who had been referred over a 3 year period from a special needs office because of putative learning disabilities were compared to randomly selected cohorts. There was no evidence of learning disabilities. Standardized scores for intelligence memory and educational achievement were all within the average range for both groups. Although there was no evidence of significant psychopathology in either group, the special needs group was significantly more immature, dependent, attention seeking, and emotionally sensitive than the reference group. Only 4 of these variables were required to classify accurately 94% of all of the students (canonical correlation = 0.82). The results indicated that standardized norm-referenced assessment is essential to determine the actual etiologies for university students who request “special needs” because of putative learning disabilities. Implications of strategies for counseling these students are discussed.

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