Plutchik R, Conte H R, Weiner M B, Teresi J
J Gerontol. 1978 Jan;33(1):68-75. doi: 10.1093/geronj/33.1.68.
Figure drawings were obtained from 72 normal adults, 48 adult psychiatric inpatients, 30 senior citizens, and 33 elderly inpatients in a mental hospital. Blind analyses were carried out for "emotional indicators" and other characteristics such as body image disturbance and intellectual impairment. Significant differences were found on almost all measures between the normal elderly and the normal adult. They were also found to discriminate between the normal adult group and the adult psychiatric patients. Very few differences were found between the normal elderly and elderly psychiatric patients, or between normal elderly and adult psychiatric patients. These results imply that norms based upon figure drawings of children or adults may not apply to the elderly and that, therefore, figure drawings may be a less useful diagnostic tool for elderly people than they are for children or adults.
从72名正常成年人、48名成年精神科住院患者、30名老年人以及一家精神病院的33名老年住院患者那里获取了人物画。对“情绪指标”以及诸如身体意象障碍和智力损害等其他特征进行了盲法分析。在正常老年人与正常成年人之间，几乎所有测量指标均发现了显著差异。还发现这些指标能够区分正常成年人群体与成年精神科患者。在正常老年人与老年精神科患者之间，或者在正常老年人与成年精神科患者之间，发现的差异极少。这些结果表明，基于儿童或成年人人物画得出的标准可能不适用于老年人，因此，人物画对于老年人而言可能是一种不如对儿童或成年人有用的诊断工具。
