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• TITLE: The “Colour Family Drawing Test”: A Comparison between Children of “Harmonious” or “Very Conflictual Families”

  AUTHORS: Valeria Biasi, Paolo Bonaiuto, James M. Levin

  KEYWORDS: Colour, Emotion, Family Drawing Test, Children, Styling, Assessment

  JOURNAL NAME: Psychology, Vol.5 No.19, December 5, 2014

  ABSTRACT: The “Colour Family Drawing Test” applied a classification of colours on an emotional basis leading to the distinction between “Alarming and Serious” (black, grey, violet, olive-green, dark blue, red, yellow) and “Reassuring and Playful” hues (pink, sky blue, orange and pastel colours). 120 participants (aged 7 - 10 years, both genders), attending Rome primary schools, were individually examined. They sat at a table with a white A4 card, 24 colour pencils, a black pencil, an eraser and received the instruction: “Draw your family”. The research objective concerns the introduction of colours and the evaluation of emotional meaning of the colours used by children in drawing their families. The families had been preliminarily evaluated as Harmonious or Very Conflictual Families through a semi-structural interview conducted with the children’s teachers. The drawings made by children of Harmonious Families consistently used reassuring, playful colours (p p t53 = 2.95; p