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

Summary: The effect which distinguished depressed patients from controls and organics
on global energy is supported by the discrimination of depressed patients from controls
on specific human energy. Although there is probably another energy factor which does
not occur under the main elements of the picture which discriminated between patient
groups.
Detail
Table 11: reliability statistics and discriminating variables for category of pictorial detail.
Pictorial detail variables (study No.(s)
(o) objective (s) subjective (c) content
(f) form
omission of detail (33) (c) (o)
missing detail (56)
presence of detail (75)
(35)
(44)
(21)
presence of 14 details: civilised
objects, 2 civ objects, roads, 2 roads,
path, sidewalk, window, windows,
door, garden, nature, relief, vegetation,
shadows (46)
amount of detail (38)
superfluous detail (c) (o)
(56)
(35)
(36)
(61)
decoration (38)
external detail (35)
words (48)
word script (56)
words on building (46)
words (49)
extra letters (36)
% other
ag't test 1
(1-6) rel'y
63 4 .59
96
4 Acc.
2 .94
2 .84
3 .63
3 .80
2 >.60
4 Acc.
2 .84
90 5 .915
2 .97
2 NS
2 .84
100
4 v.good
96
77
90 5 .915
150
discriminates patient/
nonpatient control
(nf= no figures)
patients **
depressed **
left brain damage**
organics **
NS
discriminates subgroups of patients
mild from other grades schiz'c
retardation**; schizophreniform from
nuclear schiz*; retardation from nonret.
schiz'cs. **
NS
Left brain d. from R. **
schiz. coping groups **
organics and mania
1 - reliability tests: 1 = % agreement; 2 = product moment correlation; 3 = correlation coefficient; 4 = association test Chi
sq. or T; 5 = Kappa; 6 = Anova.
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