@article{ref1,
title="Size, detail, and line heaviness in children's drawings as correlates of emotional distress: (more) negative evidence",
journal="Journal of personality assessment",
year="1996",
author="Joiner, T. E. and Schmidt, K. L. and Barnett, J.",
volume="67",
number="1",
pages="127-141",
abstract="This study examined the reliability and validity of three commonly used indicators of emotional distress in children's projective drawings--size, detail, and line heaviness--and assessed their relation to established objective and projective measures of childhood depression and anxiety. Participants were 80 child and adolescent psychiatric inpatients (53 boys, 27 girls; ages 6 to 16; M = 10.69, SD = 2.94). Although the present results indicated that these drawing indices can be assessed with very high reliability, they were not significantly associated with self-report or thematic projective measures of depression and anxiety. Age and defensiveness did not moderate the relation between the drawing indices and the non-drawing measures of emotional distress. The patterning of the intercorrelations among and within the drawing indices, projective stories, and self-report measures indicated greater support for the self-report measures, in terms of convergent and discriminant validity. This study did not support the continued use of these three projective drawing indices of emotional distress.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3891",
doi="10.1207/s15327752jpa6701_10",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa6701_10"
}