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Reassessment of inferring personality traits from Bender‐Gestalt drawing styles
Author(s) -
Holmes Cooper B.,
Dungan David S.,
Medlin Walta J.
Publication year - 1984
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 - 10.1002/1097-4679(198409)40:5<1241::aid-jclp2270400520>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , gestalt psychology , personality , big five personality traits , closure (psychology) , personality test , significant difference , personality assessment inventory , psychometrics , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , test validity , medicine , perception , market economy , neuroscience , economics
Fifty patients with closure difficulty on the Bender‐Gestalt and 50 patients with edging tendencies on the Bender Gestalt were assessed for possible personality traits associated with those drawing styles. Patients with and without the drawing styles were compared using MMPI data. Patients who drew along the edge of the paper showed no significant difference in MMPI scores when compared to non‐edgers. Patients with closure difficulty were significantly higher on Scale O of the MMPI than were the non‐closure difficulty patients. The difference was not considered to be interpretively important.