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

Black: Black is the darkest colour and has a common association with death and
emptiness. Depressives were expected to use most, schizophrenics next, other patients
could be expected to use less black and controls least.
1. Depressives were not differentiated from controls on use of black.
2. Schizophrenics used least black, significantly less than depressives and controls.
3. Depressives, schizophrenics and controls used significantly less black than substance
abusers. These results indicate support indicators of schizophrenia for small quantities
of black, which is against expectations. The highest score was from substance abusers,
who spread black consistently throughout more than half of the picture surface and were
differentiated from all other groups. Controls and depressives were not differentiable
from non-schizophrenic other patients on high or low use of black.
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