A Normative Study of the Person Picking an Apple From a Tree (PPAT) Assessment

Applying the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS) to Adults in an Asian Population

“…It is interesting to note that the majority of the mean scores on the 14 FEATS scales fell in line with predictions by the original researchers (Gantt & Tabone, 1998) and with recent normative data gathered in the United States (Bucciarelli, 2011). The exception was the lower mean score on the Prominence of Color scale found in the present study, which was lower than the average score expected.…”

“…The problem-solving strategy is reasonable rather than fantastic or illogical, and the person is shown actually picking the apple from the tree. (p. 55) Bucciarelli (2011), in a recent normative study, found the above to be consistent with her findings from a predominately Caucasian sample. Thus, in our study we hypothesized that these essential features and average details would be found in the drawings collected from the Asian population under study.…”

“…Betts (2006) also commented on the weaknesses of these two scales as needing refinement. It is of interest that the Perseveration scale, but not the Rotation scale, was found to have unacceptably low interrater reliability in a recent normative study of the FEATS (Bucciarelli, 2011). In this study of 100 college students, interrater reliability correlation coefficients ranged from a low of .49 on the Perseveration scale to a high of 1.00 on Integration, Logic, Line Quality, Person, and Rotation scales.…”

“…The range of scores on the Prominence of Color scale was rather large and the standard deviation was high, indicating a great deal of variability in the use of color in the drawings. In Bucciarelli's (2011) normative study Prominence of Color was the lowest rated variable, M = 3.14, and it, too, showed a wide range of variability. In the present study Perseveration and Rotation were the highest rated variables; in Bucciarelli's study Rotation was the highest rated variable and Perseveration was the third highest.…”

“…Indeed, much of the subsequent research has been carried out with similar samples (e.g., Bucciarelli, 2011;Munley, 2002;Rockwell & Dunham, 2006;St. John, 2008).…”