Children’s family drawings: association with attachment representations in story stem narratives and social and emotional difficulties

We examined representations of attachment security using story stem narratives (Manchester Attachment Story Task, MCAST) and a family drawing task in 50 Greek children between 4 6 years old. Additionally, we the association classification based on maternal reports social emotional symptoms assessed Strengths Difficulties Questionnaire. MCAST was not significantly associated with drawings. There small to medium strength significant drawing-based insecure higher scores conduct problems inattention/hyperactivity ratings. However, associations were statistically after controlling for effects child gender, education age. The findings are discussed relation properties measure preschool early middle childhood years.