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

directly, to answer this question. In combination with reference to the results for colour,
it can be deduced that:
Schizophrenics scored mostly neutral, towards low;
Substance abusers used extremes of high and low intensity;
Controls and depressives used more variety in colour and intensity.
Personality disordered patients used a range of tone, but these scores were not
interpretable due to small numbers in the group.
The fact that there were no associations with black and intensity probably
reflected the use of pencil. More pencil (scored as black) would not score higher in
intensity, neither would large quantities of pink (scored as mixed red).
Scores for schizophrenia indicated that most colours used were bright, especially
green and yellow, since as more colour was used, the score for intensity increased.
None of the substance abusers' colour scores related to intensity. The confidence
interval for substance abusers was very short which indicated a high degree of conformity
in the group. They scored only slightly higher than schizophrenics on intensity (who
scored the least), therefore colours were mainly used as neutral (mixed). The explanation
of equal coverage of high (3 saturated) and low intensity colour (1 mixed muddy or
watery colours) is possible but it is unlikely they would consistently use every colour
in this way.
Depressives used bright green and yellow but not red (Figure 4c), indicating some
bright colours but muted reds and greys, not a prevalence of dark, gloomy, low intensity
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