Sexual differentiation in children's drawings of pregnancy.
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.
Amann-Gainotti
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Dipartimento di Science dell' Educatione, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy.
Sellaroli
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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