Utilization of Appropriate Projective Techniques in Assessing Preschool Children's Personal Space and Body Orientation

Abstract

65 preschool children were assessed for use of personal space and body orientation with a model-room projective technique and video tapes of behavior in the actual setting. Correlations were computed to express the relationship between the projected and observed physical distance and body-orientation scores. In the case of distance and body-orientation variables, zero correlations were obtained between the projective measures and the means of observed measures obtained by time sampling the video recordings.