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The psychopathology of everyday art: a quantitative Study - World ...

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3 Demographic variables were used from the controlled analysis:<br />

sex <strong>of</strong> subject;<br />

age, whether child/adolescent (under 18), adult (18-60), older adult (60+);<br />

diagnosis <strong>of</strong> the main experimental group;<br />

<strong>The</strong>re were 3 study factors:<br />

<strong>art</strong>test form, what form <strong>of</strong> information did the <strong>art</strong> test collect;<br />

criterion form, what form <strong>of</strong> information did the criterion collect;<br />

no. <strong>of</strong> criterion measures used;<br />

Sensitivity <strong>of</strong> the test and results.<br />

comparison, what type <strong>of</strong> qualities were the instruments being compared on;<br />

the results <strong>of</strong> the study: did the <strong>art</strong> test results correlate or significantly agree<br />

with the other criterion test.<br />

One alternative was marked for each category. Tables 1 and 2 show frequency and<br />

percentages <strong>of</strong> study factors for all studies, and are divided between studies showing<br />

association or none between the main <strong>art</strong> test and the criterion. <strong>The</strong> mean ranks for<br />

study factors between the two result levels were subjected to a non-parametric test <strong>of</strong><br />

association, and the results are presented in Table 3.<br />

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