Metric rating of children's drawing of the human figure. A methodological proposal Calificación métrica del dibujo infantil de la figura humana. Una propuesta metodológica

Abstract

The analysis of Human Figure Drawing (HFD) has been broadly used for diagnosis and evaluation. The HFD’s primarily reflect intellectual maturity, the developmental level, and the child’s interpersonal relationships. This transversal, non-experimental study aims to propose a methodology for the assessment of HFD in children, which is capable of providing differential quantitative indicators, is less likely to present statistical error than the traditional qualification, and is statistically comparable, allowing to diminish the subjective character bias in the assessment thus performing unbiased evaluation. To test the method 40 HFD were analyzed, which were done by 20 girls and 20 boys, aged between 7 and 10 years. Each of the groups studied, were made up of children who presented physical abuse (GM) or didn’t (control group, CG. 10 boys and 10 girls). Both Student t and Pearson’s r were applied on the 13 variables measured. Significant differences were found in some indicators. The proposed methodology makes feasible to perform statistical comparisons on clinical level and in research as well.