title: A construct validation study of the Human Figure Drawing Test.
abstract: To assess whether the Human Figure Drawing Test provides an assessment of nonverbal cognitive maturity, correlations for 31 youngsters who ranged in age from 6-0 to 10-10 on the Human Figure Drawing Test and the Verbal, Performance, and Full Scale IQs of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Revised (WISC--R) were examined. Significant correlations were observed for each of the scales, but the value of .69 for drawings and WISC--R Performance IQs was significant, suggesting the assessment that these tests are largely nonverbal. Implications for the role of language were posited.
authors.affiliation: Meyer Rehabilitation Institute, Omaha, Nebraska 68131.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Fabry
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Bertinetti
mesh_terms: D001154:Art; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014888:Wechsler Scales