Nastaran Seyed Esmaili Qomi; Ali Sheykholeslami
Volume 3, Issue 10 , March 2013, , Pages 113-128
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to comparesigns of anxiety and depression in draw a person test in mentally retarded andnormal students. In this descriptive research, the statistical population consistsof all 11 year-old educable mentally retarded and normal students of Shahriyarcity in the academic ...
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The purpose of this study is to comparesigns of anxiety and depression in draw a person test in mentally retarded andnormal students. In this descriptive research, the statistical population consistsof all 11 year-old educable mentally retarded and normal students of Shahriyarcity in the academic year of 2011-2012. 33 educable mentally retarded students areselected through convenient sampling and 33 normal students were selectedusing cluster random sampling. Draw a person test (DAP) is used to collectinformation. The data re analyzed using Mann-Whitney test.The results show that there is significantdifference in the rate of anxiety and depression between educable mentallyretarded and normal students reflected in their drawings. This means thateducable mentally retarded students had shown greater measures of anxiety anddepression in their drawings