Factors associated with Nicotine Addiction and Coping Skills in the Synthetic House-Tree-Person Drawing Test / 정신간호학회지

ABSTRACT

Purpose@#The purpose of this study was to determine factors associated with nicotine addiction and coping skills in the Synthetic House-Tree-Person Drawing Test. @*Methods@#This was a descriptive correlational study. The S-HTP drawings were scored using the Buck’s quantitative scoring manual. Participants completed the revised Multidimensional Coping skills questionnaire and the Nicotine Dependence Syndrome Scale. @*Results@#Non-smokers sketched additional decorations of a house (p=.009), 2D body parts (p<.001), and proportioned body parts (p=.001) as compared to the smokers (n=186). Smokers sketched a more disproportionate stem and branch (p=.010) and did not sketch the nose, lips, or eyes, and generally sketched 1D body parts as compared to the non-smokers (p=.001). There were correlations among the S-HTP drawings, nicotine addiction, and coping skills. The lack of additional decorations of a person, disproportionate house parts, and a lack of proportionate body parts explained 26% of the nicotine addiction (adjusted R2=.26, p<.001). @*Conclusion@#The results of this study showed that the S-HTP sketches differed according to the extent of nicotine addiction and coping skills.