The National Adult Reading Test (NART), developed in Britain is commonly used in clinical settings to estimate premorbid intelligence in New Zealand. Research suggests psychometric tests are more accurate if normed on the population they are used with. This study attempted to establish norms for the original NART based on a New Zealand population and develop a National Adult Reading Test for use with a New Zealand population (NZART). Sixty-four university students were administered the Wechslers Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI), the NART and the New Zealand Adult Reading Test (NZART). A regression equation was developed to estimate premorbid intelligence in this sample. Results indicate fewer errors occur on the NZART than the NART suggesting it may be a better indicator of premorbid intelligence for a New Zealand sample. Furthermore, the NZART was more accurate at estimating premorbid WASI IQ across all three subscales of the WASI at a range of IQ levels. Analyses were also conducted to ascertain the impact of demographic variables. Little overall difference was found in test scores in relation to gender, age or income. Although future studies need to be conducted to validate this new measure, initial results suggest that the NZART may be a more accurate predictor of premorbid IQ in a New Zealand population.

Mon travail de recherche consiste à comparer les formes du merveilleux dans deux oeuvres, génériquement, culturellement et linguistiquement tout à fait distinctes et qui pourtant ne sont pas sans liens. Le roman de Jaufré est un roman arthurien écrit en occitan probablement au début du XIIIème siècle, tandis que les Narty Kaddžytæ sont le trésor dupeuple ossète, légendes recueillies aux XIXème et XXème siècles auprès des conteurs (kadæggændžytæ) et publiées notamment par des savants tels que Vs. Miller et V.I. Abaev. G. Dumézil a montré combien le cycle des Nartes, bien que rapporté par la tradition orale, s’enracinait très profondément dans le passé au-delà du peuple ossète lui-même. Dansles légendes de ce petit peuple, dernier locuteur d’une langue nord-est iranienne (la branche scythique), on retrouve maintes accointances avec les coutumes et croyances des Scythes, tels que décrits par Hérodote. [etc.] / My research concentrates on the comparison of the shapes taken by ‘merveilleux’ motives in two works truly different as far as literary genres, cultural and linguistic backgrounds are concerned, and yet not totally lacking connections.The roman de Jaufré is an Arthurian romance written in Occitan, probably from the beginning of the XIIIth century, while the Narty Kaddžytæ (Nart legends) are the treasure of Ossetian people, legends collected during the XIXth and XXth centuries from kadæggændžytæ (oral storytellers), and published by Russian, Ossetian or European scholars such as Vs. Miller, V.I. Abaev. Miller and later Dumézil proved how the Nart Legends, though coming from oral tradition, was rooted in a past far beyond the ethnogenesis of the Ossetian people. A lot of striking connections are to be found between the epic of these people - last speakers of a language from the Northeast Iranian group (or Scythian branch) - and the habits or the faith ofthe Scythian people, such as Herodote described them. [etc.]