Tj. Mcneish et Ja. Naglieri, IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH SERIOUS EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE USING THE DRAW A PERSON - SCREENING-PROCEDURE FOR EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE, The Journal of special education, 27(1), 1993, pp. 115-121
Group differences were analyzed for 81 regular education students and
a matched sample of 81 students in special educational placements for
students with serious emotional disturbance. The samples were matched
on age (mean age in years for each group was 10.6), gender, race, and
intelligence. All subjects completed drawings of a man, a woman, and s
elf, which were scored using the Draw A Person: Screening Procedure fo
r Emotional Disturbance. The mean T score earned by the students with
emotional disturbance (M = 55.3, SD = 10.6) was significantly higher (
t = 4.0, p <.001) than that earned by the nondisturbed sample (M = 49.
5, SD = 8.6). These results indicate that the special education group
produced more signs associated with emotional disturbance than did the
nondisturbed group, and provide limited support for the usefulness of
this new approach.