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Intellectual evaluations of adolescents via human figure drawings: An empirical comparison of two methods
Author(s) -
Abell Steven C.,
Horkheimer Robert,
Nguyen Son E.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199810)54:6<811::aid-jclp8>3.0.co;2-j
Subject(s) - psychology , projective test , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , psychoanalysis
The human figure drawings of 200 adolescent boys were collected at a residential treatment center in a midsized, midwestern city. The drawings were scored for cognitive ability according to the systems of Buck (1966) and Goodenough and Harris (1963). Both scoring systems showed acceptable interrater reliability and both were positively and significantly related to IQ scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children‐Revised. Buck's system, however, had less of a tendency to underestimate IQ scores. Buck's system may therefore hold greater promise for the intellectual assessment of adolescents with human figure drawings. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 54: 811–815, 1998.