The effect of affective characterizations on the size of children's drawings
The effect of affective characterizations on the size of children's drawings
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DOI：
10.1348/026151003322535228
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发表时间：
2003-11-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Davis, A
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作者：
Burkitt, E;Barrett, M;Davis, A
先前的研究已经产生了相互矛盾的发现，关于儿童绘画中出现的尺寸变化的存在和方向，当他们被要求画一个被赋予情感特征的主题时。本研究旨在调查儿童是否按比例放大已被赋予积极特征的主题的绘画尺寸，并按比例缩小已被赋予消极特征的主题的绘画尺寸。参与者是258名年龄在4到11岁之间的儿童，他们完成了三幅画，分别是人、狗或树。每个孩子都画了一个中性特征的人物的基线图，以及另外两幅相同人物的积极特征和消极特征的图。结果发现，儿童画出的积极特征主题比中性特征主题大，而画出的消极特征主题比基线画出的小。这些模式发生在所有年龄段和所有三种绘画主题中。对研究结果的两种可能解释进行了讨论：儿童食欲防御机制的运作，以及图像惯例的习得。
Previous research has yielded conflicting findings about the existence and the direction of the size changes which occur in children's drawings when they are asked to draw topics which have been given an affective characterization. The present study was designed to investigate whether children scale up the size of drawings of topics which have been given a positive characterization, and scale down the size of drawings of topics which have been given a negative characterization. The participants were 258 children aged between 4 and 11 years who completed three drawings of either a man, a dog or a tree. Each child drew a baseline drawing of a neutrally characterized figure, and two further drawings of a positively and a negatively characterized version of the same figure. It was found that the children drew the positively characterized topics larger than the neutrally characterized topics, and reduced the size of the negatively characterized topics relative to the baseline drawings. These patterns occurred at all ages and with all three drawing topics. Two possible explanations of the findings are discussed: the operation of an appetitive-defensive mechanism in children, and the acquisition of pictorial conventions.