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Emotional Indicators in Children’s Human Figure Drawings: An Evaluation of the Draw-A-Person Test
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Abstract of the thesis
The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the Draw-A-Person test and its clinical validity. In a series of 11 studies, the human figure drawings (HFDs) of children with emotional/behavioural difficulties (EBD) were compared to normally adjusted children, matched either for chronological age (CA), mental age (MA) or Goodenough-Harris (GH) scaled scores. Several different measures were considered: original Koppitz (1968) emotional indicator scores, revised indicator scores based on new normative data, an intuitive method of identification and ratings of bizarreness.
Emotional Indicators in Children’s Human Figure Drawings: An Evaluation of the Draw-A-Person Test
The original and revised emotional indicators, and both expert and novice judges using the intuitive method, failed to discriminate between mildly disturbed children’s HFDs and those of controls matched for CA or MA. The indicators and judges were successful, however, using more severely disturbed children’s drawings compared with both CA and MA matched children’s HFDs. The severely disturbed children’s drawings were also rated as more highly bizarre than the CA and MA controls. When the severely disturbed children’s drawings were compared to GH matched control HFDs, the emotional indicator differences disappeared and the judges were no longer able to discriminate the drawings successfully.
No differences were found between the clinical and GH matched HFDs for ratings of bizarreness. Also, the ratings did not alter when the indicators were removed from the drawings. Visual differences were found between subsamples of drawings which were classified as disturbed or normal. These differences relate to variables involved in the GH scale and a factor discovered by Adler (1970) measuring cognitive maturity. The results of this thesis have implications for the Koppitz indicators and the use of the DAP test. Questions are raised over the interpretation of HFDs for emotional health. The influence of cognitive maturity on the drawings of disturbed children is considered and the results are discussed in the light of drawing theories which consider either the internal representation or production process as paramount.
Researcher of the Thesis
- Michelle Catte
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