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

portraiture, so it is difficult to say which of these elements probably contributes the most
to differences between diagnostically similar groups on specific variables for study 2.
Differences in scores from the first study: three variables were transformed, and this
commentary describes the usage figures (transformed back) so as to make better sense
between relations to figures from Study 1. Five findings from study 1 were generally
supported; two of the non-significant findings (blue and brown) and three out of four
significant variables identified in study one (yellow, intensity and line), which showed
only slight changes in study 2 (the other significant variable, orange, was too infrequent
to be used).
There was no signiicant difference between the findings of Studies 1 and 2 for
brown or blue. Patients used more brown in study 1, this put them equal with controls
who used roughly the same amount in study 1 as 2; depressed patients used more blue
in study 1 and controls less, but these small fluctuations did not affect the outcome of no
significant difference between groups.
There was little difference in the findings of studies 1 and 2 for yellow. Both
depressed patients and schizophrenics scored only slightly higher than brain injury in
study 1 which group was not included in study 2. Controls used slightly less yellow in
study 2, but were still differentiated from schizophrenics, the group who used least.
Generally the scores for intensity hovered around the same point, neutral for both
studies. Controls scored much higher than the patients in study 1; in study 2 the
schizophrenic score was lower than the rest and this is probably attributable to better
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