A pilot qualitative study developed item criteria with themes of resilience and vulnerability. Consistent with ecological theory, item contents indicated that resilience was derived from systems of home life and familial relationships, reflections on self-other interactions, interpersonal relationships, and connectedness with the environment, and that vulnerability was derived from living without external systemic support, placing a child at risk for an intrapersonal life of negative representation of self, self-in-relation to others, and personal-social attitudes. House, Tree, and Person (HTP) drawings by children (N = 131 age range 6-15) in Haiti were studied statistically to assess for resilience and vulnerability post-2010 Haiti earthquake.
It can therefore be concluded that Turkish migrant children’s drawings are influenced by both their culture of origin, probably mediated by their familial socialization, and their social experiences in Germany. These findings are in line with the specific ecocultural context and the cultural orientation of Turkish migrant families toward psychological autonomy and hierarchical relatedness. On the other hand, however, the drawings differed from those of Turkish rural children in the size of the depicted self. The results revealed similarities between Turkish migrant children’s self- and family-depictions with those of children from their culture of origin, particularly in some categorical features such as gender-specific characteristics, torso type, and neighbors. Besides the drawings, the mothers’ sociocultural orientation was assessed, as well as migrant mothers’ involvement in the German and Turkish cultures. The children of the five cultural milieus did not differ in age, gender distribution, or human figure drawing ability. The final sample consisted of 40 Turkish migrant children, 56 German urban middle-class children, 47 German rural children, 61 Turkish urban middle-class children, and 21 Turkish rural children. The aim of the present study was to investigate the cultural conception of self and family held by Turkish migrant preschool children in comparison with native German and native Turkish children by the assessment of self- and family-drawings.
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