Journal of Behavioral Assessment, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1984 Comparative Relationships of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) to the Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS) Joseph J. Ryan, 1,2 Samuel J. Rosenberg, 3 and Robert L. Heilbronner 3 Accepted October 21, 1983 This study investigated whether the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale- Revised (WAIS-R) and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) demon- strate similar patterns of relationship with the Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS). Sixty VA patients were administered the WAIS-R and WMS and 60 completed the WAIS and WMS. The groups were comparable in terms of demographic variables. Pearson correlations were computed between the subtest and IQ scores from the intelligence scales and the scores from the WMS for each group. Comparison of the resulting correlations for the WAIS- R group with those of the WAIS subjects demonstrated only four significant differences, indicating that the WAIS-R and WAIS variables covary in a simi- lar manner with the WMS scores. Following factor analysis of the test data for both groups, coefficients of congruence indicated a high degree of similarity between the two jactor solutions. Essentially the same relationships emerged between intelligence variables and the WMS regardless of which scale was administered. • KEY WORDS: Wechsler Scales; intelligence; memory; comparative relationships. Weterans Administration Medical Center, North Chicago, Illinois 60099. 2To whom correspondence should be addressed at Central Testing Laboratory (116B1), VA Medical Center, North Chicago, Illinois 60064. 3University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois 60064. 37 0164 0305/84/0300-0037503.50/0 © 1984 Plenum Publishing Corporation