Description
Assessing the personality of 3 to 4-year-old children can help us become familiar with how they think and evaluate their behaviors. In the process of assessing the child’s personality, we can get acquainted with valuable items about the children and understand either positive and negative points or any probable disorder in their personality. With a correct and timely understanding of the child’s personality, it is possible to both strengthen the positive aspects, prevent the occurrence of personality disorders and eliminate possible future problems in the child’s personality. To accurately assess the personality of a child at this age, we need to perform standard tests and after analyzing the results of them, the exact schema of the child’s personality will be determined. To analyze the child’s personality at this age, five tests are common to use (four tests to be done by the child, and one test to be done by the child’s parent):
Due to its high scientific support, this test has become one of the most important tests for analyzing the personality of children at this age and it also could be performed easily. Through this test, numerous cases are identified in the child’s personality, including:
- Moods
- Emotional stages
- Pathological aspects
- Fantasy
- Escape from reality
- Carelessness
- Excitation
- Psychological connection with the future
- Psychological relationship with the father
- Extraversion
- Tendency to objective acquisitions
- The extent of imaginary life
- The realm of ideal values
- Psychological connection with the present time
- Objectivity
- The realm of unconscious drives
- Need for physical safety
- Imagination
- Shyness
- Thinking
- Constraint
- Psychological connection with the past
- Psychological relationship with the mother
- Introversion
- the fear
- Self Confidence
- Eroticism
- The desire for physical pleasures
- Sensitivity
- Gentleness
- Delicacy
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Anger
- Uneasiness
- Peace
- Pessimism
- Self-dissatisfaction
- Inferiority complex
- Feeling guilt
- Emotional disorders
- Neurological disorders
- Communication with the environment
- Communication with family
- Excitement
- Honesty and lying
- Psycho-motor instability
- Stages of emotional transformation
- mood disorders
- Hysteria
- Organic disorders
- Psychosomatic disorders
- And general aspects of thinking and personality
It is one of the most important and standard tests at this age, which due to its simple application and numerous research support, has been highly regarded by experts for analyzing different aspects of the children’s personality. In this test, the child’s way of thinking about him/herself, the environment, others, parents, family members, his/her personality structures inner thoughts, repressed emotions, positive and negative emotions, attitude to the future, present and past are evaluated.
Another important test to identify children’s personality is the free drawing test in which the mental, psychological, and emotional structures and also the way of thinking of the child are evaluated according to the drawn elements and components of his/her painting, and, as a result, the behavior and the general personality of the child will be represented.
The Child Apperception Test is a projective personality test used to assess children’s personalities. The purpose of this test is to help the child understand the relationship between those around him/her, and for determination of the child’s defense mechanisms that he/she uses for compatibility, as well as to identify his/her tendencies, conflicts, competitions, or fears.
The ECBI test is one of the most reliable tests for examining children’s behavior. This test should be done by the parents and it will be very effective for analyzing the child’s behavior.
Instructions
To perform the test accurately, please follow the instructions below carefully:
Step One: Give the child a set of colored pencils including seven colors: blue, green, red, yellow, purple, brown, and black.
Step Two: Give the child a regular black pencil.
Step Three: Give the child an eraser and a pencil-sharpener.
Step Four: Place an A4 size paper in front of the child vertically.
Step Five: Now ask the child: “Draw a person on this paper as well as you can, and then paint it if you want.”
Note:
The test order must be performed exactly as it was mentioned, and if any changes are applied in the test process or the child is told additional sentences, the result will change significantly and will be invalidated. The child should be allowed to draw as he wishes, without any assistance, criticism, or indoctrination. You can only encourage the child by saying “Good, keep going” when he/she has doubts while drawing. If the child asks about the method, tell him/her: “you can draw in any way that you want, it will certainly be nice.”
The child should feel free to choose the location of the person on the paper, its dimensions, the direction of the paper which might be different from the direction you handed him/her, the material of the person, the use of the ruler, adding elements other than the specified subject, colors to pain or even to refuse to paint with colors. Since all these choices made by the child could be meaningful in the analysis of the test, any interference in the process of drawing will change the report and might lead to an improper analysis. As a result, follow the test exactly as instructed and do not interfere in the child’s drawing process in any way.
Step Six: Download the form related to this section, track the child’s drawing at the same time and answer the questions in the form.
Step Seven: Now take a photo of the child’s drawing and upload it along with the completed form in this section.
Note that to avoid possible errors due to illegibility, you must type the form before uploading it.
Step Eight: Give the child a set of colored pencils, black pencils, erasers, and pencil-sharpeners, then place an A4 size paper in front of him/her vertically and ask him/her to draw a tree.
Note:
Note that you shouldn’t state anything other than the sentence “draw a tree” and do not interfere in the drawing process in any way. Let the child finishes his/her painting freely as he/she wishes. Note that any interference with the child’s drawing process interferes with the test results, and if the child asks a question about how to draw or whether he/she can add or remove something or not, just answer: “Whatever you want”.
Step Nine: After performing the Tree Test, take a photo of the child’s drawing and upload it in this section.
Step Ten: Give the child a set of colored pencils, black pencils, erasers, and pencil-sharpeners, then place an A4 size paper in front of him/her vertically and ask him/her to draw a picture of his/her choice. “You can draw anything you like”.
Note:
Note that you do not tell the child anything other than the sentence, “You can draw anything you like” and you do not interfere in the process of drawing in any way Let the child finishes his/her painting freely as he/she wishes. Note that any interference with the child’s drawing process interferes with the test results, and if the child asks a question about how to draw or whether he/she can add or remove something or not, just answer: “Whatever you want”.
Step Eleven: When the child finishes drawing, take a photo of it and upload it in this section.
Step Twelve: Start the C.A.T test now via the link below.
Note:
If the child feels tired or bored at the end of a test, you can give him/her a short break and start the next test when he/she is ready. Note that, through the process of doing the tests, if you do all the steps in the form of a game, the child will enjoy the process of doing the test and spending time with you.
Step Thirteen : Start the ECBI test now via the link below.
Reports
Click for the sample report. 
Assessing the personality of 3 to 5-year-old children can help us become familiar with how they think and evaluate their behaviors. In the process of assessing the child’s personality, we can get acquainted with valuable items about the children and understand either positive and negative points or any probable disorder in their personality. With a correct and timely understanding of the child’s personality, it is possible to both strengthen the positive aspects, prevent the occurrence of personality disorders and eliminate possible future problems in the child’s personality. To accurately assess the personality of a child at this age, we need to perform standard tests and after analyzing the results of them, the exact schema of the child’s personality will be determined. To analyze the child’s personality at this age, five tests are common to use (four tests to be done by the child, and one test to be done by the child’s parent.
Assessing the personality of 3 to 5-year-old children can help us become familiar with how they think and evaluate their behaviors. In the process of assessing the child’s personality, we can get acquainted with valuable items about the children and understand either positive and negative points or any probable disorder in their personality. With a correct and timely understanding of the child’s personality, it is possible to both strengthen the positive aspects, prevent the occurrence of personality disorders and eliminate possible future problems in the child’s personality. To accurately assess the personality of a child at this age, we need to perform standard tests and after analyzing the results of them, the exact schema of the child’s personality will be determined. To analyze the child’s personality at this age, five tests are common to use (four tests to be done by the child, and one test to be done by the child’s parent.
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