Eslami Shahrbabaki Mahin1, Mahmoudi Meymand Nasrin2
The present study was conducted to compare the drawing features at the content level and psychoanalytic interpretation analysis (deletion, additions, and replacement) in the drawings of children of divorce who lived with their parents at the age range of 7 to 13 years. The population of this study includes elementary school children (7 to 13 years old) of city’s second district of education department of Kerman. This research is a causal comparative study and the sampling method is the accessible sampling. In this study, the research group attended primary schools of second district of the city of Kerman to administer family drawing test on the children of divorcewho were made known by their teachers, regardless of living with either parent. Despite the restrictions imposed by both schools and families, 76 cases including 44 girls and 32 boys were examined. Among the female participants of this study 29 lived with their mother and 15 of them lived with their father where among the male participants 25 boys lived with their mother and 7 lived with their father. Kremn's family drawing test, observation and interview are the main research tools of this study. Drawings were studied in terms of: discarding others, discarding one, discarding the parent who takes care of the child, additions except the parent, adding a parent who does not live with him. The defense mechanism of displacement was compared between two groups of children living with their paternal and maternal parents, and the results were analyzed using descriptive index (frequency distribution tables) and to test the research hypotheses two-dimensional chai square tests were used. The results indicated that: there was no significant difference in delition others from thedrawing. And in delition the parent who takes care of the child, there is a significant difference between a girl and a boy living with their mother. Also, there was a significant difference between the group of girls and boys living with their mother in defense mechanisms.
