Kinetic family drawings as indices of family functioning

Master Thesis

1989

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Betts, Jennifer
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Faber, Phillip
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University of Cape Town

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Department of Psychology
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Kinetic Family Drawings (KFDs) are Projective drawings which require the drawer to give 'action' to the depicted figures. A number of studies have been conducted following its inception in 1970. (Burns & Kaufman, 1970; 1972). Upon examination of these studies, however, it is evident that those studies pertaining to aspects of family functioning obtained significant results to a greater degree. It was the contention of the present study, that the KFD may be measuring aspects of family functioning. The present study thus incorporated a measure of family functioning, the McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) (Epstein, Baldwin & Bishop, 1983), to assess whether KFD depictions were indices of family functioning. The results were obtained through KFDs of 96 individuals who constituted 24 families. These individuals consisted of (n=48) parents and (n=48) adolescents. Due to constraints of research design, there were unequal numbers of males and females i.e. 38 males and 58 females.
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Bibliography: pages 131-140.

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Kinetic family drawing test
Family

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Betts, J. 1989. Kinetic family drawings as indices of family functioning. University of Cape Town.

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