Development of Personality and Psychological Tendency Estimation System Based on the Projective Psychological Tests

Abstract

In recent years, people with mental health problems are increasing all over the world. In order to reduce the risk of children becoming mentally ill, we develop a system to estimate the user's psychological state based on the Tree Test, which is one of the Projective Psychological Tests, and provide psychological education that matches the result. In this paper, we developed the module to estimate the user's psychological state based on the Tree Test. Users can choose from 2D objects such as tree trunks, roots, and leaves to complete the drawing of the tree. Personality and Psychological Tendency are estimated from the result of the drawn tree. An experiment was conducted to compare the tree drawn by the proposed system with the one drawn with a pencil on paper. As a result, while the user was able to draw the tree that the user expected using the system, there was a difference between the drawing of the tree on paper and the one drawn by the system.