Comparison of the Trail Making and Color Trails Tests in a Chinese context: a preliminary report

Percept Mot Skills. 2000 Feb;90(1):187-90. doi: 10.2466/pms.2000.90.1.187.

Abstract

The Color Trails Test developed as a culturally fair analogue of the Trail Making Test, was used to examine the relationship between the two tests with 35 undergraduate Chinese in Hong Kong recruited as the subjects. The scores on these two tests of the 12 men and 23 women were significantly correlated .71. The equivalence of the Trail Making and Color Trails Tests when applied to Chinese in Hong Kong was discussed.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • China / ethnology
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Ethnicity / psychology*
  • Female
  • Hong Kong
  • Humans
  • Language
  • Male
  • Neuropsychological Tests / statistics & numerical data*
  • Psychometrics
  • Sex Factors
  • Trail Making Test / statistics & numerical data*