title: Figure-drawing indices of psychological accessibility.
abstract: We investigated the hypotheses that windows, doors, pathways, and size of the house in the House drawing of the House-Tree-Person projective drawing technique reflect psychological and social accessibility by correlating these variables with the Social Introversion scale of the MMPI-2. Subjects were 153 nonclinical, community adults, and 146 clinical patients currently receiving mental health services. While there were strong correlations among these figure-drawing variables, suggesting some common underlying dimension, these scores were not significantly correlated with psychological accessibility as measured by the Si scale of the MMPI-2. Possible interpretations were suggested.
authors.affiliation: Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 47 W. Polk Street, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60605, USA. rjcraig41@attbi.com
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Craig
authors.forename: Ronald E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Olson
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saad
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D008950:MMPI / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011386:Projective Techniques / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012016:Reference Values; D012919:Social Behavior