Differences in Hand Test Responses of Healthy Females Across the Life-Span

Abstract

The Hand Test was administered to 175 females ranging in age from 17 to 72 years. Subjects were all "community-living," within normal range of hearing and vision, in good health, and had a modal education level of high school graduate. Results were consistent with previous findings using projective techniques with the elderly, in that a depletion and constriction of personality appears to be concomitant with the normal aging process.