Drawings of a person made by 50 girls and 54 boys were rated on the Harris Qualitative Scale by four independent raters; reliabilities were in the neighbourhood of .8. Ratings were correlated with the Extraversion scores on the Junior E.P.I.; extraverted children produced better drawings. Intelligence was correlated both with quality of drawing and with E, but even with intelligence partialled out positive but insignificant correlations between E and quality of drawing remained. The results tentatively support the hypothesis that in young children extraversion is related to drawing ability.
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