Some Correlational Aspects of Performance on the Art Scale of the WFPT among Certain Variables in a Deaf Population

Abstract

Because of low verbal skills exhibited by deaf subjects and because of earlier research results linking verbal behavior to aesthetic behavior, this preliminary investigation sought to lay some groundwork for an empirical study of the relationship between these two ordering systems. This study states the postulates upon which our working paradigm is based and presents the results of a correlational analysis of syntactic and aesthetic preference scores of ninety-two deaf high school students (both profoundly deaf and legally deaf). The results appear to corroborate earlier findings linking syntactic and aesthetic behavior. The study suggests the direction for an experimental study which is now in operation under a university grant.