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Size and Placement in Childern's Drawing as Correlate of Emotional Distress

Sixty Croatian children who had experienced directly the recent war in former Yugoslavia drew a man, followed on a separate page by either (i) a Croatian soldier, (ii) an enemy soldier or (ii) a second drawing of a man. Half of the sample had lost their father due to the war. There were no significant effects of Trauma group (with/ without father) or Topic of drawing on the drawings' size or their placement relative to the child's self-portrait drawing. The paper discusses the many mechanisms of influence of emotion on drawing but argues that these are idiosyncratic and unpredictable.

children's drawings; emotional distress

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