DAⅤIDV. MYERS Tabe Distribution of Groups of Subjects by Emotiona! Adjustment and Age Emotional Adjustmen: Disturbed Young( 6-8 years) YEA Oider(12-14 vears) OEA OED develop an objective scoring system via 4 Because of Burns and Kauf mans conten step-wise regression analysis. However. tion that the interpretation of KFDsym- their study was conducted prior to the re- bois is highly variabie. no attempt was lease of Burns and Kaufman's (1972)Ac- made to include symbois in the quantifi Id Symbois in Kinetic- cati Famihy-Drawings(KFD): An interpre he scoring procedure was employe rive Manual, and thus did not examine to evaluate K Fds obtained from two all of the variables considered significant clinically different groups of chiidren:o by Burns and Kaufman. Aiso, o'Brian determine the ability of the procedure to and Patton did not include emotionally differentiate between the two groups disturbed children in their sampie, fur. The clinical groups participating in the ther reducing the utility of their study. study were boys judged to be either emo McPhee and wegner(1976)exa tional well adjusted oremotionally dis differences in k fd styles betwee urbed. Further. the K FDs of each group but failed to specifically control for the ranges within each group IO CAetano mal"and emotionally disturbed cl examined were obtained from two separate ag ffects of age, intelligence, and other sensitivity of the procedure to age d quantifiable aspects of the KFD such as ferences. That is, each group was divided characteristics and actions. A second into younger and aidier subsamples yield shortcoming of the KFD technique of ing four groups of subjects (i.e, young Burns and Kaufman( 1972) is that no emotionally well ad usted [YEA]. young normative data are given with respect to emotionally disturbed [Y ED]. older emo- any developmental differences in chil- tionally well adjusted [OEA]. older emo- dren. in spite of the overwheiming evi- tionally disturbed [OED). These groups dence that graphic abilities are directly are presented in Tabie I related to age and intelligence(Good enough. 1926: Koppitz, 968 method The purpose of the present study was Subjects and materials to test the feasibility of employing a quan titative scoring procedure for evaluating ent study were i 16 boys, ages through procedure, the issues of both normative as lathe y dis yo ed. For each pro- be explored. For these purposes, an em- See Ap pibil o p 100:. Remi inad ance fora pirically-based KFD Scoring Guide was Microm. New however, here is to m ichang of ss oi developed by the present author using 21 Staps and styles derived from the hypotheses ot cations Phot Ic scoring procedures of Mc Phee (1974). a pho: o:0p anss ta: a cAnada, postage s $. o( 1