Interdomain relationships among linguistic, cognitive, and verbal processing modes were explored using principal component analysis. The data, obtained from 15- and 16-yr.-olds via individual structured interviews and a cognitive style test battery, yielded a complexity dimension. This dimension reflected explicit/analytic to non-reflective/categorical modes of processing and appeared to link all three domains (linguistic, cognitive and verbal).
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