Children's Drawings of Significant Figures for a Peer or an Adult Audience

Autor/inn/en	Burkitt, Esther; Watling, Dawn; Murray, Lucy
Titel	Children's Drawings of Significant Figures for a Peer or an Adult Audience
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 20 (2011) 6, S.466-473 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7219
DOI	10.1002/icd.735
Schlagwörter	Childrens Art; Audiences; Freehand Drawing; Emotional Response; Stimuli; Young Children; Comparative Analysis; Adults; Psychological Patterns; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spectator; Zuschauer; Drawing; Zeichnen; Emotionales Verhalten; Anreizsystem; Frühe Kindheit; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	The present study assessed if children would present different information in their drawings of emotion eliciting stimuli when they believed that an adult or a child audience would view their drawings. Seventy-five 6-year-olds (44 boys and 31 girls) were allocated to three groups: the reference group, the child audience group and the adult audience group. All children completed a drawing session where they first drew a neutral uncharacterised figure, followed by drawings of a sad and a happy figure in counterbalanced order. Findings demonstrated that children did consider who would be viewing their drawings when communicating emotional affect and included different features within their drawings. In particular, almost all happy drawings included a smile, but only those drawings where an audience was specified included a wave, and only the adult drawings included flower giving. Within the sad drawings tears and frowns were drawn regardless of audience type, whereas stomping was more likely to be portrayed in drawings with a child audience and thumbs down were more likely to be portrayed in drawings with adult audiences. The findings are discussed in terms of the need to further examine communicative aspects of children's drawings. (Contains 1 table and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10