This mixed-methods art-based study probed pictorial expressions in mother and infant relationship drawings. The participants were 45 women in the third trimester of their first pregnancies, who produced a mother-infant relationship drawing and filled out self-report questionnaires relating to maternal representation. The drawings were subjected to Phenomenological Analysis, which resulted in a list of ten dichotomous categories of drawing phenomena. The differences in maternal representations between the two groups in each category were examined non-parametrically using two-sample Wilcoxon rank-sum tests. The consolidation of qualitative and quantitative information revealed significant differences between the groups of drawings in some of the categories. This partially confirmed the hypothesis of the presence of an association between the pictorial data and the quantitative data, and highlights the difficulty of combining artistic data and quantitative declarative information.

这项基于艺术的混合方法研究探讨了母婴关系图中的图形表达。参与者是第一胎中期的45名妇女，她们制作了母婴关系图，并填写了有关孕产妇代表性的自我报告调查表。对这些图形进行了现象学分析，得出了十种分类现象的清单。使用两样本Wilcoxon秩和检验非参数地检查了每个类别中两组之间的孕产妇代表性差异。定性和定量信息的合并显示某些类别的图纸组之间存在显着差异。