Drawing tests are suitable tools for measuring various aspects of children’s behavior,
because they overcome the language barrier, the art of expressions in which
connotations are drawn that may not occur to the child’s mind, and the individual
differences in expressive fluency between one child and another in the early stages of
life, as well as the difficulties of the standardized test situation; Which confuses the
child and makes him another person (disturbed, afraid, anxious). As for the position
of the drawing, the child becomes immersed in a very spontaneous way with his
imagination, and his lines that reflect many of his inclinations, perceptions,
imagination and the way he understands the variables of reality.
Free drawings for children are the most available areas for expressing a lot of Their
psychological characteristics, whether their abilities, personal traits or values, and it
is enough to touch a child (telling) to us an official story, to show that he transfers his
whole world to the paper, and uses his pen to transcend all possible and not possible
limits, expresses through his drawings his happiness and sadness, and what He
suffers from a deficit, and what he feels of superiority, and above all because of his
abilities and skills, not in the ability to draw and his artistic skill in it, but in the
ability to perceive basic mental concepts and form new concepts to express his
subject. The focus of our attention is not in drawings. Children, and what the child
produced in the end, but our attention focuses on how he produced what he produced,
and how he drew what he drew, and that the mental processes behind drawings and
the development of concepts are the subject of psychological interest, and not the
field of drawing or its technical skills, and for this reason, my thinking does not focus
Rana focused on the topics of beauty, rather on ideas and expressions and their
psychological content for the level of mental advancement, and this advanced level
that enables the child to move from just making random lines before the age of two to
drawing the vertical and horizontal straight line, then moving to drawing the circle
and the square, and when he is able to draw the circle It hastens to realize the
similarity between it and the human face, and thus continues its development until it
is able to accurately determine the proportions between the parts of the body.
However, the behavior of drawing, like all forms of psychological performance, is
not governed by cognitive factors and mental advancement alone, and we can decide
a number Unlimited non-mental psychological factors interfere in one way or another
in the child’s drawing, whether in his attention to details or not, or his passion for
drawing and its amount or motives for drawing, or his psychological and emotional
problems and the amount of social compatibility, consideration and hidden desires, as
the child uses projection as an unconscious defense mechanism, and we can
Assuming that children's drawings provide an opportunity for these unconscious
projections, and that they may be more fertile than the Rorschach inkblot test, or the
subject understanding test, and others, Because the child in these tests is restricted by
a stimulus that includes to some extent some characteristics, it is not easy for him to
get out of them, but the free drawing allows him not to be bound by any restrictions.
The interpretation of the semantics and characteristics of children’s drawings is
almost subject to intuitive or contemplative tests, which depend on content derived
mainly from the theory of The unconscious in psychoanalysis, and most researchers
specializing in various drawing tests believe that drawing body parts such as the
mouth, hand, or head are of great importance.
أ.د/عصام محمد محفوظ | Prof.Dr.Essam Mohamed Mahfouz | 20957