The impact of context on draw-a-person drawings: Focus on size
Department/Unit
Office of the Counselling and Career Services
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Source Title
PACERS 41st Annual Conference
Publication Date
2-2017
Abstract
Despite evidences of weakness prevailing over the strengths of projective techniques in its scientific standards, its popularity still cannot be denied among many practitioners. In order to deal with the issue of validity of projective tests in measuring personality traits, the study focused on interpreting size of draw-a-person test will vary across context, thus will not be held reliable to measure self-esteem. This experimental research utilized crossover design. Contexts were specified according to drawings asked by a young child, an art teacher, and a counselor. Participants were 40 college students, randomly assigned on varying order to being exposed to the treatments. Friedman test and Wilcoxon signed ranks test were used to identify significant differences in size of drawings that occurred across contexts. Results revealed that sizes of figure drawings were contextually defined. Further, it implied that size of human figure drawings cannot be held as a reliable measure of a person's self-esteem.
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Recommended Citation
Desingaño, A. B., Cataquis, R. E., Legaspi, E. Q., Ong, A., & Reyes, J. S. (2017). The impact of context on draw-a-person drawings: Focus on size. PACERS 41st Annual Conference Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/12976
Disciplines
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
Keywords
Draw-A-Person Test; Projective techniques
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