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Drawings of depressed inpatients: Intentional and unintentional expression of emotional states
Author(s) -
Miljkovitch de Heredia Raphaële M.,
Miljkovitch Ivan
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(199812)54:8<1029::aid-jclp3>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - psychology , depression (economics) , expression (computer science) , clinical psychology , emotional expression , psychiatry , developmental psychology , computer science , economics , macroeconomics , programming language
Twenty‐six patients, aged 21 to 63, hospitalized for depression, and 26 control individuals were asked to make a “funny” and a “sad” drawing, which were scored on 22 variables describing their formal aspects and contents. Results show that drawings of individuals with depression differ from those of control participants on a wide range of variables, sometimes very significantly. Prediction of participants' groups based on eight variables obtained by discriminant analysis was correct in 98% of cases. Results support the usefulness of asking for the two kinds of drawings and suggest that depression is better detected through formal aspects of drawings than through their contents. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 54: 1029–1042, 1998.