Young Children's Conception of Physical Attractiveness as Evidenced in Human Figure Drawings.

Autor/inn/en	Moran, James D., III; und weitere
Institution	Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater.
Titel	Young Children's Conception of Physical Attractiveness as Evidenced in Human Figure Drawings.
Quelle	(1976), (18 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Affective Measures; Concept Formation; Emotional Development; Freehand Drawing; Interpersonal Attraction; Maturity (Individuals); Physical Characteristics; Preschool Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Gefühlsbildung; Drawing; Zeichnen; Interpersonale Anziehung; Reifung; Körperliche Erscheinung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule
Abstract	In order to assess young children's conceptions of "pretty" and "ugly", twenty-nine 5- and 6-year-old children (14 male and 15 female) were asked to draw a pretty person and an ugly person. These drawings were scored for developmental maturity according to Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test and for emotionality by means of the Koppitz Scale of Emotional Indicators. The data confirmed that young children do make discriminations on the basis of physical attractiveness that affect their drawings. The children's drawings of an ugly person reflected a lower level of developmental maturity ("p"< .001) and greater emotionality ("p"< .001) than drawings of a pretty person. These differences between pretty-person and ugly-person drawings suggest that young children have a well-developed concept of physical attractiveness that conforms to the cultural stereotype found in older children and adults, in which "ugly" produces more primitive and emotional responding than "pretty". The results underscore the need to be alert to the presence of transient emotional states in the testing of young children. (Author/MP)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC