TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1996//
TI  - Size, detail, and line heaviness in children's drawings as correlates of emotional distress: (more) negative evidence
JO  - Journal of personality assessment
A1  - Joiner, T. E.
A1  - Schmidt, K. L.
A1  - Barnett, J.
SP  - 127
EP  - 141
VL  - 67
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-3891
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa6701_10
ID  - ref1
ER  -