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The effect of culture on children's drawing developmentBrown, Ian, n/a January 1990 (has links)
Few would deny the importance of art education in the total
educational development of the child. Drawing is an integral
component of art education. Drawing for children appears to be a
natural form of expression. Studies involving the observation of
children's drawing development have had a long history in relation to
child art. Recognition that children pass through identifiable stages of
development in drawing and that these stages could be affected by
cultural and individual differences is an important focus in art education
research.
This study is concerned firstly with drawing development and
secondly, with differences in drawing development across cultures.
Eight year old children with predominantly European background and
eight year old children with Vietnamese/Kampuchean background were
chosen for this study.
The study was concerned with determining whether there were
any significant differences in drawing development between the two
ethnic groups, using a modified scale of the Rouse "Descriptive Scale for Measurement of Art Products".
The results of this study indicate that there are differences in
drawing abilities between the two ethnic groups.
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CONSTRUCTION AND INITIAL VALIDATION OF THE DESCRIPTIVE DEATH SCALEDaniel Alan Shemwell (9187766) 04 August 2020 (has links)
The purpose of the present study was to develop the Descriptive Death
Scale (DDS), a brief, descriptive and multidimensional measure that assesses
individual perceptions of single death experiences. The DDS has the potential
to expand how death experiences are understood in the literature because it can
serve as a tool for grievers to quantitatively contextualize their single death
experiences instead of indicating only the mode of death. From a constructivist
perspective, the adjectives included in the DDS are parcels of meaning that
symbolically contextualize grievers’ subjective understanding. Drawing from
qualitative research, I compiled a broad list of 65 adjectives that grievers
and terminally ill patients have used to describe past and impending deaths. My
online recruitment process resulted in a sample of respondents (<i>N</i> = 572)
who identified primarily as White/European American,
cisgender female and heterosexual (83%, 85%, and 83%, respectively). Their ages
ranged from 18 to 80 (<i>M = </i>43.13, <i>SD =</i> 13.40). The results of the EFA
indicated a 5-factor structure; however, the CFA analysis/ESEM indicated that a
4-factor model better fit the data. The DDS subscales (i.e., Incomprehensible,
Warm, Withering, Ostracized) include a total of 27-items and scores on each subscale
displayed good internal consistency and convergent and discriminant validity.
The results from the regression analysis indicated that the Incomprehensible,
Warm and Withering death subscales contributed significantly and positively to
grief distress, beyond closeness to the deceased and age of the deceased. The
DDS assesses the nuanced and unique profiles of grievers’ perceptions of single
deaths. It can serve as an important and novel tool for researchers and
clinicians to capture grievers multidimensional and subjective understanding of
their death experiences. With single word items, it is brief, easy to use, and
versatile across domains.
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