title: Gender, anxiety, and human figure drawings.
abstract: Male and female human figure drawings (HFDs) produced by 340 males and females, from ages 9 yrs. 7 mos. to 22 yrs. 4 mos., and deriving from a normal population, were scored for anxiety related to aggression-hostility (A-H) and insecurity-lability (I-L). In general, male subjects evidenced more anxiety about A-H than females; additionally, both male and female subjects drew male figures with more A-H anxiety indices than female figures. The results are interpreted in terms of the impact of sex-role socialization. Further, the utility of obtaining HFDs of both sexes in personality assessment is noted.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001154:Art; D001828:Body Image; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept