Abstract
The Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test was performed in twenty-nine hemiplegic patients after stroke and thirty healty persons as control. The results were as follows.
1. The time required for test was eight minutes and thirty-six seconds in hemiplegic group and three minutes and forty-one seconds in control group in average. It required longer time to perform the test for hemiplegic group than for control group, but there was no specific relationship between the time required and distortion of figure.
2. Pascal-Suttell's Score of hemiplegic group was higher than that of control group and the difference was statistically significant.
3. There was a high inverse correlation between Pascal-Suttell's score and score of Wechsler-Bellvue intelligence Scale in hemiplegic group (r=-0.7857).
4. Figures of Bender Gestalt Test were classified by inspection into three groups according to the grade of their distortion. This classification was in accord with the distribution of Pascal-Suttell's score in general.
5. It is presumable that hardness of the motivation of a patient will be estimated from his Pascal-Suttell's score of Bender Gestalt Test in rehabilitation process.
