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ANALYSIS O F CHILDREN’S HUMAN FIGURE D RAWINGS AND COMPARISON WITH PARENTAL RATINGS OF CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOR
Ana Sambolek
; IV. osnovna škola Bjelovar
Gordana Buljan Flander
; Poliklinika za zaštitu djece grada Zagreba
Marija Krmek
; Poliklinika za zaštitu djece grada Zagreba
Sažetak
The aim of this research was to investigate the correlations and differences between parental ratings and the analysis of children’s human figure drawings in the assessment of children’s anxiety, aggressiveness and shyness. The research comprised 106 preschool children and 106 parents.
Children’s human figure drawings were analyzed based on the emotional indicators of Elizabeth Koppitz. For parental ratings of children’s behaviour we used the Anxiety scale, subscale of assessment aggressive behaviour of Pros/Agr scale and Shyness scale.
The results showed that in most cases parental rating of aggressiveness is statistically significantly correlated with certain emotional indicators (long hands, hands cut off, omission of the nose). Also, it is statistically significantly correlated with the assessment of children anxiety based on Koppitz’s emotional indicator and with possible emotional difficulties. There is no other statistically significant correlation between parental ratings and the assessment of children’s behaviour based on the analysis of human figure drawings. Results show a statistically significant difference in the number of emotional indicators between children with regard to parental rating of aggressiveness. Parental ratings of aggressiveness, anxiety and shyness explain a statistically significant variability of children’s anxiety and possible emotional difficulties based on emotional indicators.
Ključne riječi
emotional indicators; anxiety; aggression; shyness; parental ratings; preschool children
Hrčak ID:
82853
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Datum izdavanja:
15.4.2010.
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