Intellectual evaluations of adolescents via human figure drawings: An empirical comparison of two methods

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...

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Published in:Journal of clinical psychology 1998-10, Vol.54 (6), p.811-815
Main Authors: Abell, Steven C., Horkheimer, Robert, Nguyen, Son E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Biological and medical sciences
Boys
Cognition & reasoning
Cognition. Intelligence
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human Body
Humans
Intelligence tests
Intelligence Tests - statistics & numerical data
Male
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Residential Treatment
Teenagers
Wechsler Scales - statistics & numerical data
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0021-9762
1097-4679
DOI:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4679(199810)54:6<811::AID-JCLP8>3.0.CO;2-J