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

Summary: There are unresolved definition ambiguities of the qualities measured.
Neglect measures appear to distinguish patients against controls and schizophrenia from
patients although coverage of paper does not. Mixed patients use more 2 dimensional
space than controls although there are no specific differences in schizophrenia. Patients
with brain damage use less spatial relations than controls and share some perspective
abnormalities of mental retardation, but the qualification mentioned previously in reality
above (study 33), may apply to both mental retardation and brain damage; limitations on
measurements of drawing qualities show that severe retardates make less errors because
there is observably less on the paper, so the utility of this form of measurement may be
compromised.
Energy Table 10: reliability statistics and discriminating variables for Energy.
energy variables (study No.)
(o) objective (s) subjective (c) content
(f) form
energy (21) (c) (s)
(3)
tension (38)
balance of motion (69)
motion (44)
(48)
(49)
motion shown thru line (38) (c) (s)
motion in objects (38)
motion shown through colour (38)
main subject of picture (c) (o)
energy in self (75)
energy in family (75)
human action (46)
graphic human action (46)
1, 2, 3 buildings, function visible (46)
community building (46)
good representation bldg function (46)
% other
ag't test 1
(1-6) rel'y
97
77
96
96
96
96
96
3 .60
3 .89
2 >.60
4 Acc.
3 .63
2 >.60
2 >.60
2 NS
2 .94
2 .94
148
discriminates patient/
nonpatient control
(nf= no figures)
organic **
patients less (nf)
NS
NS
NS
depressed **
depressed **
discriminates subgroups of patients
depressed from organic** 199
depressed pers. dis. (less) nf
paranoid from non (schiz) *
coping strategies schiz. 200 (p