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

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Objectives <strong>of</strong> the test<br />

<strong>The</strong> main objective <strong>of</strong> the Descriptive Assessment for Psychiatric Artwork<br />

(DAPA) was to describe an object produced directly by the patient (the painting)<br />

so that relations with another such product, by a different patient were<br />

comparable along the same indices.<br />

Subsidiary objectives were:<br />

to find suitable dimensions <strong>of</strong> a picture so as to include as much information as<br />

possible without making the scale unwieldy.<br />

that the scales should be valid; they would measure the attributes for which they<br />

were designed.<br />

that the scales be reliable; several raters would not disagree significantly on<br />

scoring.<br />

Hypothesis<br />

that the test would be useful, understandable and applicable outside the <strong>art</strong><br />

therapy pr<strong>of</strong>ession.<br />

1 Formal variables will distinguish paintings by different diagnostic groups <strong>of</strong><br />

psychiatric patients.<br />

2 If people with similar diagnoses use a similar characteristic style in their paintings,<br />

then the majority <strong>of</strong> people in a given group should make pictures which are more<br />

similar to those who suffer the same diagnostic psychiatric disorder.<br />

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