2005 Volume 19 Issue 2 Pages 77-90
This study analyzed the psychological features of children during meal scenes from the perspective of the parent-child psychological connection. The study was based on family pictures of meal scenes that 111 children of the fifth and sixth grades in elementary school and 175 students of the first and second grades in senior high school had drawn. The result of the study revealed that elementary school children and high school students with higher levels of psychological connection had better relationship with other family members and displayed positive feelings for them, as depicted by numerous centripetal meal scenes. Conversely, students with lower levels of psychological connection had few relations with the family, as was evident by the large number of centrifugal meal scenes. Moreover, two features, namely, dissatisfaction and indifference could be observed from the centrifugal meal scenes. These features were more pronounced in the case of meal scenes drawn by high school students.
