Reflection of aggression to the children's drawings in the pre-school years

Drawing is described by many experts as one of the tools used to assess the children's personality. Children can express their emotions and thoughts through drawings. Based on this idea the present study was designed to investigate the reflections of aggression in the children's drawings. A total of 85 children, 42 girls and 43 boys, aged 5-6 were randomly selected from public and private schools. Social behavior scale was applied to all children and their physical - relational aggressiveness levels were determined. All children are asked to draw a whole human figure, a picture of "A dinner at my house" and a picture of "My playtime at my school". 12 different color crayons were given to children for all three drawings and they completed their drawings with the colors they prefered. The human figures were analyzed utilizing Draw A Person Test (DAPT) of Koppitz according to the presence or absence of 9 emotional signs. The picture of "A dinner at my house" and the picture of "My playtime at my school" were analyzed utilizing the Drawing Assessment Scale (DAS) prepared by the researcher including "Schema", "Expression", "Presentation", "Proportion", "Line" and "Extent" subdimensions. Three groups were identified as risky, suspicious and normal according to the score of DAS. The analysis results of human figure indicated the presence of asymmetry in the drawings of the children who have aggression. Besides, it was found that the level of aggression accounted for a significant correlation in "Schema", "Expression", "Presentation", "Proportion", "Line" sub-dimensions of the picture of "A dinner at my house" and a significant correlation in "Schema", "Expression", "Presentation", "Proportion", "Line" "Extent" sub-dimensions of the picture of "My playtime at my school". There was no significant correlation between aggression level and color preference