Abstract
189 college students completed a test measuring spatial visualization and were classified by sex and by having high or low skill in sports demanding either high or low decision-making from manipulation of visual images. The latter classifications were facilitated by subjects' self-reports and other questionnaire data. The general findings indicated a consistent interaction of sex by skill suggesting that the development of spatial visualization may be more highly related to development of sport skills involving manipulation of visual images by women than men. Analysis of variance yielded a main effect for sex, given higher spatial visualization scores by men. However, when academic ability and coursework background were statistically controlled, sex differences in spatial visualization scores were not observed in analysis of covariance.
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