Psychological Analysis of the children stories content with regard to the gender, age and socio - economic status

Nasirzadeh, Raziyeh; Erfanmanesh, Narjes; Rasoolzadeh Tabatabaei, Kazem; Mozaffari Makki Abadi, Mohammad

doi:10.22059/jwica.2014.51667

Psychological Analysis of the children stories content with regard to the gender, age and socio - economic status

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Raziyeh Nasirzadeh

Narjes Erfanmanesh

Kazem Rasoolzadeh Tabatabaei

Mohammad Mozaffari Makki Abadi

https://doi.org/10.22059/jwica.2014.51667

Abstract

Draw a story (DAS), by Integrate story and drawing, attempt to enter to child's emotional world, and provided valuable information about the inner world of children's that they are not able to express them, due verbal and cognitive limitations.

The aim of present study was to evaluate Emotional content, self- image and use of humor in children of elementary school and investigate Gender differences, age and Socioeconomic Status on these constructs by Psychological analysis of the content of children's stories. In this survey study and casual-comparative study, a sample of 500 primary school students from Shiraz were selected through evaluated by Draw a story test. Data was analyzed using MANOVA. Result showed that girls vs boys, high Socioeconomic vs low Socioeconomic were obtained higher scores in Emotional content, self- image and use of humor Moreover, while increasing age, children 's scores increased on measures of emotional content, self-image and use of humor.

Keywords

Draw a story (DAS)

Emotional content

self- image

use of humor

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