Responses of mental hospital inpatients on the Draw-A-Person Questionnaire.
This study evaluated accuracy of the Draw-A-Person Questionnaire in distinguishing a diagnostically varied group of mental hospital patients from controls. Subjects were 166 mental health inpatients at a public hospital, paid +3 for participation, and 166 controls selected from a group of 1382 adult volunteers to match the patients on age, race, and sex. All subjects were given the Draw-A-Person questionnaires following drawings of a male and female. Questionnaires were scored for Denial, Demeaning, and Likes to Hurt Others scales. In three 2 x 2 x 2 (status x sex x race) analyses of variance, patients scored higher than controls on all scales. African-Americans (n = 242) scored higher than Euro-Americans (n = 78) on Denial. Further analysis of an interaction between patients' status and for Denial suggests that only male patients differed from controls, the former group showing higher Denial scores.
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Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA. skarp@gwis2.cir.gwu.edu
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D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011386:Projective Techniques / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012737:Sex Factors; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data