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VARIATIONS IN DRAWINGS OF ‘A PERSON’ and ‘MYSELF’ BY HEARING‐IMPAIRED AND NORMAL CHILDREN
Author(s) -
GILLIES JOHN
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1968.tb01987.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , hearing impaired , relevance (law) , reflexive pronoun , audiology , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , political science , law
S ummary . Study of drawings of ‘a person’ and ‘myself’ by hearing‐impaired children suggested the existence of consistent patterns of qualitative difference between the two. A simple method of quantitative comparison was devised and comparisons made with drawings by a control group of normally hearing children. Analysis of results showed significant variations between the hearing‐impaired and normal groups in terms of direction and degree of person/self differences for the two types of drawing. These results, together with those relating to possible sex differences, are discussed and a wider investigation proposed to consider the possible relevance of these trends to conceptual development and psycho‐social adjustment.