Using the Bender-Gestalt test to predict graphomotor dimensions of the Draw-A-Person test.

@article{citeulike:279621, abstract = {The investigators examined four correlated aspects of the Bender-Gestalt and the Draw-A-Person tests. Subjects were 41 boys and 14 girls classified as seriously emotionally disturbed or seriously behavior disordered by their school system in southwest Georgia. Each subject's Bender-Gestalt and human figure drawings were placed on a digitizing pad and encoded to provide information relative to the width, height, average point of location on the fourth quadrant abscissa and ordinate of each drawing. The widths of Bender Figures 2 and 8 correlated significantly with the widths of human drawings; the heights of Figures A, 5, and 7 were significantly correlated with the heights of the human drawings. Bender Figure 1 was significantly correlated with average points of location on the abscissa of human figure drawings (distance from the left margin of the page), but correlations between the average points of location from the top of the page were nonsignificant. Comparison of these results with data from other samples might refine diagnosis.}, address = {Department of Psychology, Counseling and Guidance, Valdosta State College, GA 31698.}, author = {Hilgert, L. D. and Adams, W. F. }, citeulike-article-id = {279621}, issn = {0031-5125}, journal = {Percept Mot Skills}, keywords = {childhood, children, cognitive, computer, early, lit-review, visual-motor}, month = {February}, number = {1}, pages = {27--32}, posted-at = {2005-08-11 23:12:00}, priority = {2}, title = {Using the Bender-Gestalt test to predict graphomotor dimensions of the Draw-A-Person test.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2648312}, volume = {68}, year = {1989} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:279621 L3 - citeulike-article-id:279621 TI - Using the Bender-Gestalt test to predict graphomotor dimensions of the Draw-A-Person test. JF - Percept Mot Skills VL - 68 IS - 1 SP - 27 EP - 32 AD - Department of Psychology, Counseling and Guidance, Valdosta State College, GA 31698. SN - 0031-5125 N2 - The investigators examined four correlated aspects of the Bender-Gestalt and the Draw-A-Person tests. Subjects were 41 boys and 14 girls classified as seriously emotionally disturbed or seriously behavior disordered by their school system in southwest Georgia. Each subject's Bender-Gestalt and human figure drawings were placed on a digitizing pad and encoded to provide information relative to the width, height, average point of location on the fourth quadrant abscissa and ordinate of each drawing. The widths of Bender Figures 2 and 8 correlated significantly with the widths of human drawings; the heights of Figures A, 5, and 7 were significantly correlated with the heights of the human drawings. Bender Figure 1 was significantly correlated with average points of location on the abscissa of human figure drawings (distance from the left margin of the page), but correlations between the average points of location from the top of the page were nonsignificant. Comparison of these results with data from other samples might refine diagnosis. KW - childhood KW - children KW - cognitive KW - computer KW - early KW - lit-review KW - visual-motor AU - Hilgert, LD AU - Adams, WF PY - 1989/02// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2648312 ER -