PORTO, Valdeque R.N. (1985) – Estudo de validação de um Procedimento de Desenhos de Família com Estórias, destinado à exploração clínica da personalidade de crianças [Study of Validation of a Drawing-of-Family-with-Story Procedure for the clinical exploration of children´s personality] . Master’s Dissertation. Campinas (SP), Instituto de Psicologia da PUCCAMP, 138 pp.
This study had as its main objective the realization of an exploratory study in the area of psychological evaluation, using family drawings associated with thematic verbalizations (stories), as a procedure aimed at obtaining information on the personality dynamics of the subjects. It was a first attempt to validate, in a systematic way, the Drawing-of-Family-with-Story Procedure (DF-E) introduced by Walter Trinca. Lydia Jackson’s Family Attitude Test was the instrument used to fulfill both objectives. A total of 28 subjects of both sexes, from six to twelve were chosen for the experiment. They were patients from private and public and university psychological clinics that had been previously selected. The Drawing-of-Family-with-Story Procedure and the Family Attitude Test were applied to the same subjects because the author wished to compare the first instrument with the second one, which was the “criterion” to validate the first instrument. Six psychologists made two evaluations, the first one was conducted using the Drawing-of-Family-with-Story Procedure, while the second one used the Family Attitude Test. The psychologists were divided into two groups. These evaluations were made using the knowledge and concepts of the psychodynamic theories of personality. Each psychologist provided a summary of the aspects that he considered relevant for each subject of the sample. Another psychologist (the seventh one) made the harmonization of each value with each subject, resulting in the exact evaluation. Were considered valid only the items that accorded to at least two evaluators. The final summary contained 25 psychological factors. It was observed that the Drawing-of-Family-with-Story Procedure offers, qualitatively, good resources to obtain information about dynamism of disarranged personality aspects. Quantitatively two analyses of data were performed. The first one involved a precision study, and the second one involved a validity study. Both data treatments indicated good results by the precision analysis. However, the same didn’t occur with the validity analysis study, because the studied sample was limited. Only in two of the 25 psychological aspects, the hypothesis of nullity were accepted. The author emphasizes the necessity of further research to investigate some of the findings of this exploratory work.