Developmental Analysis of Human Figure Drawings in Adolescence, Young Adulthood, and Middle Age
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment
- Vol. 41 (1) , 31-38
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa4101_5
Abstract
Analyzed 195 human figure drawings (HFDs) of adolescents, young adults, and middle-aged adults in terms of developmental differences in anxiety signs, grouped into aggressive-hostile and insecure-labile categories, and according to sex-role stereotype, as measured by the Broverman Sex-role Stereotype Scale. Adolescent males and females were significantly more likely to obtain more anxiety signs than the two adult groups, although young adults and middle-aged adults did not differ from one another in HFD performance. The most reliable sex difference was that males reveal significantly more aggressive-hostile indices in the HFDs relative to females; no significant sex differences were obtained for number of insecure-labile indices. The degree to which one has adopted a conventional sex-role stereotype was not predictive of anxiety sign differences in HFD performance for either sex or for any age group.Keywords
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