title: Sexual ambiguity in children's human figure drawings.
abstract: Four hundred sixty-one children in grades 5-9 drew a person and indicated the sex of their human figure drawing. A significant number (8%) of children were unable to classify their drawings as to sex; the frequency of uncertainty did not vary with grade or sex of child. Inability to determine the sex of one's own drawing is hypothesized to be a conceptual rather than a perceptual problem, and to reflect uncertainty about the essence of sexual identification.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Psychology, Wellesley College, MA 02181, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rierdan
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Koff