This study is intended to establish an objective scale for evaluation of a tree-drawing test and to identity a relationship between tree-drawing test and of the self-concept test. In this study, 484 male students at high schools located in InChon Cit...
This study is intended to establish an objective scale for evaluation of a tree-drawing test and to identity a relationship between tree-drawing test and of the self-concept test. In this study, 484 male students at high schools located in InChon City participated in the self-concept and tree-drawing tests. Of these 484 students, 433 were included in the result and analysis, and those students who did not perform a tree-drawing test and those students with low reliablity in their self-concept test were excluded. To evaluate these results of tree-drawing tests quantitatively, the researcher, conforming to the theoretical framework of a tree-drawing test (Buck, J.N. 1970) among HTP tests, established an evaluation scale for a total of 32 questions on 8 items; tree''s water channel, stem, branch, root, leave, fruit, tree-form and supplementary additive. A total scale of self-concept test and five subscales of self-respect, emotional stability, interpersonal relationship ability, problem-solving ability, and sense of interpersonal relationship ability were used for analysis. Subjects were divided into 3 groups for the scores of self-concept. A score of 44 points or less was categorized into the low-score group; A score of 44-55 points, the middle-score group; 55 points or more, the high-score group. The differences among these groups on tree-drawing test results were verified. The research result showed that students who have more self-respect drew water channels densely and didn''t drew stems like an electric pole. And some students who have low emotional stability drew many knobs in detail. According to the verification, there was no meaningful differences of tree-drawing forms in accordance with interpersonal relationship abilities. And students who have more problem-solving abilities drew water channels densely. On the other hand students who have less problem-solving abilities emphasized the tree root. In addition, students who have more interpersonal reliability drew the more trees which is not the ground and the lower part. However other students who have far less interpersonal reliability drew water channels like a circle stems thickly like an electric pole. On the basis of this results, we have discussed the interrelations between the total score of self-concept having effect on tree-drawing forms and self-respect, emotional stability, problem-solving ability, interpersonal reliability. Also we have discussed the differences between the groups on the result of tree-drawing tests.