The Study of Cognitive Behavior from Children Drawing Elementary Level Children in Tainan as the Research Example.

• Main Authors: Tsai, Chih-Fang, 蔡知芳
• Other Authors: Hung, Ming-Hong
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24wyg4

碩士 === 東方設計學院 === 文化創意設計研究所 === 103 === The research purpose is to discover the relevance between cognitive behavior and children’s drawing from their projective drawing performance. The researcher takes elementary school level students in Tainan as research subjects to proceed qualitative research. The two theories, Piaget’s cognitive development theory and Viktor LowenFeld’s development periods of children's drawing were adopted as the related references. Moreover, ten projective drawing tests were performed to put into practice. Totally, the researcher had collected nine hundred children drawings, questionnaires, children interview contexts, teacher interview sheets, and parents’ questionnaires as database to analyze the results. The purpose of the research is to discover the relationship between children’s personality development and family interaction from drawings. The research excerpted ten drawing contents as following, the house, the tree, the people, house-tree-person, self-portrait, my family, what do I do with my family, my dreams, free drawing, and Mandala drawing. Among ten contents, the researcher chose four topics, which includes the house, the tree, the people, and what do I do with my family to analyze the data. The research outcome was stated below. According to the analysis, the content of children drawings mostly match the theory of drawing development, cognitive development and children drawing psychology analysis. The children’s drawings significantly reflect their life experience and records. It also shows the general family activities. Thus it can be seen that family life is an important place to project children’s drawing content. Moreover, after analyzing the drawing content, seven or eight-year-old children only draw what they see from their surroundings. However, after nine years old, they started to express the self-ego and inner feelings from the drawing. It explains the relationship between age and drawing. Besides the age factor, the gender shows the different angles from the drawing. Generally speaking, female children prefer to use cute icons, human interaction and abundant scene to express their feelings. The male children’s drawing tells a different story. The content is much simpler than the females. Mischievous style, competitive element, weapons, transportation, and sports are occurred in the drawing to show how they feel. The result makes the gender conception stand out. In conclusion, the research result indicates drawing is a free and fenceless expression. It helps adults to utilize drawing as a media to enter children’s world to discover their life experiences and inner emotion. It benefits to communicate with children and rebuild the alienation between parents and children. Parents will not miss the opportunity to guide and show concerns about children’s emotion and cognitive development, which also help children release their pressure in order to develop positive personality. Children are able to develop healthier bodies and minds.