title: Sexual differentiation in children's drawings of pregnancy.
abstract: An analysis is reported of drawings of pregnancy by children of both sexes, with the hypothesis that it would be possible to determine sex-related characteristics of the drawings. Clear sexual differentiation in male and female children's representations of pregnancy was revealed by to features: the location of the baby inside the body of the mother and the tendency in some of the boys to "masculinize" the figure, of the expectant mother.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Science dell' Educatione, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amann-Gainotti
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sellaroli
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011386:Projective Techniques; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012737:Sex Factors