The purpose of this study is to examine the Squiggle-Drawing Game(SDG) for the assessment of kindergarten children’s psychology. SDG and HTP tests were employed for the this study. The results from the SDG and HTP tests were analyzed and compared in order to examine the agreement between them.
The subjects were 29 children aged between 6 and 7. who went to S kindergarten in Taegu. Each subject was individually interviewed for about 40 minutes. They were interested in and also serious about the interviews.
The instrurnents of measurement were the SDG and HTP tests. For SDG, the assessment
criteria. Kurihara & Takano(1992, 1994) were used. The SDG was conducted for two different areas. The first was the assessment for pictures, and the other was the assessment for pictures and stories. For the HTP test, I refered to the assessment criteria of Buck(1987) and those of Takahasi(l994). The assessment results were divided for affection and for sociality. Affection refered to the children’s emotions-anxiety, contraction, drive, tension -, which were revealed in the pictures and the stories. Sociality described the children’s family relationship, adaptation whih peers and concern/interest about the outer world, all of which were revealed in pictures and stories.
In order to examine the agreement between the results from the SDG and HTP tests, a 5-point rating scale was developed. The agreement was analyzed by experts.
The mean of agreement analyzed by experts were 3.35 for affection and 3.40 for sociality, which were obviously higher than great agreement(3.0). therefore it can be concluded that SDG is an instrument as useful as HTP in assessing kindergarten children’s psychology.