Size of Human Figures Drawn before and after Stress

1 August 1969

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills

Vol. 29 (1) , 57-58
https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1969.29.1.57

Abstract

This study measured the effect of a real stress, the announcement of impending heart surgery, on the size of the human figure. The H-T-P was administered before and after the announcement of the operation, with matched controls being told they would not need the operation ( Ns = 10). While the individual variation in coping styles obscured group differences, there was a trend for post-stress drawings by the operated group to be larger than their pre-stress drawings.

Keywords

STRESS
SURGERY
COPING
HEART
PRE
TOLD
STYLES
HUMAN FIGURES
OBSCURED

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Height of Christmas Tree Drawings as a Function of Time
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1963
Empirical evaluations of human figure drawings.
Psychological Bulletin, 1957