The psychological test with tree men was invented by British psychologist Pip Wilson, who studied the work of emotional intelligence and experimental forms of learning.
Wilson originally developed this test to measure the well-being of children in school. He later tested the test on adults and found great consistency in the results. Due to this, the technique has gained popularity all over the world.
Check your emotional state! Take a look at the picture below and choose the person with whom you associate yourself:
In front of you is a tree with little people depicted in different moods and located in different places on the tree. You need to carefully look at the tree and choose the person who you think most resembles you. Then choose another person who represents who you would like to be like.
Once you've chosen a person, look at what it might mean.
This means that you are a purposeful and strong person who is not afraid of obstacles in life. You are ready to take on the challenge.
You are a good communicator and willing to support and help friends and family.
If your choice fell on little man 4 you are a stable person with a stable life. You are the type of person who wants to achieve success, but without the difficulties and obstacles associated with it.
Man's Choice 5 indicates that you are feeling tired, weak and unmotivated. You lack energy and vitality to achieve what you want.
Choice 13 or 21: you are overcome by internal anxieties, you are withdrawn and avoid communicating with people.
Choice 9: you are a happy person who enjoys entertainment.
Choice 10 or 15: you are stable, easily adapt to your environment and happy in life.
Choice 8: you are a self-centered person, immersed in your own world.
Choice 14: you suffer from depression and feel as if you are falling into an abyss, or have an emotional crisis due to internal problems or conflicts.
Choice 20: symbolizes confident people. You are a natural leader who wants people to listen only to your opinion.
If you chose 16 or 17 people
Choice 16: you feel tired of having to bear another person's burden
Choice 17: you feel surrounded by attention.
The “Tree” technique (author D. Lampen) was adapted by L.P. Ponomarenko. It can be used to assess the success of a child’s adaptation at the beginning of schooling and during the transition to secondary education. The technique allows you to quickly determine the characteristics of the adaptation process and identify possible problems for the child. Children, immersed in drawing activities, carry out the proposed tasks with pleasure and easily identify themselves with this or that person.
Students are offered sheets with a ready-made image of the plot: a tree and little men located on it and under it. Each student receives a sheet with a picture of a tree and the little people on it. (But ).
The instructions are given in the following form:
“Look at this tree. You see a lot of little people on it and next to it. Each of them has a different mood and takes a different position. Take a red felt-tip pen and color in the little person who reminds you of yourself, is similar to you, your mood at school and your position. Perhaps the higher up the tree the little man is, the higher his achievements, the more successful he is in school. Now take a green marker and color in the little person you would like to be and in whose place you would like to be.”
It happens that some children ask permission to indicate the positions of two people.
In this case, you should not limit their choice, but it is necessary to record which person was marked first and which second, since the ratio of these choices can be quite informative.
Interpretation of results:
Interpretation of the results of the tree with people method is carried out based on what positions a given student chooses, with the position of which person he identifies his real and ideal position, and whether there are differences between them.
The interpretation was developed taking into account the experience of practical application of the methodology and comparison of its results with observations of student behavior, data received from teachers and parents, and from conversations with the child.
For ease of explanation, each figure is assigned its own number.
It should be noted that students do not always understand position No. 16 as the position of “a little man who carries little man No. 17,” but tend to see it as a person supported and embraced by another.
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Figure item number |
Characteristic |
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characterizes the mindset to overcome obstacles |
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2, 11, 12, 18, 19 |
sociability, friendly support |
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stability of position (the desire to achieve success without overcoming difficulties) |
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| fatigue, general weakness, low strength, shyness | |
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motivation for fun |
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| detachment, withdrawal, anxiety | |
| detachment from the educational process, withdrawal into oneself | |
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comfortable condition, normal adaptation |
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crisis state, “falling into the abyss” |
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| 20 |
students with high self-esteem and a leadership mindset are often chosen as a prospect. |
Based on the results of carrying out the “Tree” technique in the classroom, you can draw up a diagram that clearly displays the situation of children’s adaptation to learning in the classroom.
Diagram “Reminding yourself” Diagram “Desire to be like”
Press source: L.P. Ponomarenko. Psychological prevention of maladjustment in students at the beginning of secondary school. Methodological recommendations for school psychologists. - Odessa: Astra-Print, 1999.
Projective technique “Tree with people”
Purpose: study of the psychological climate in the classroom.
Children are offered sheets with a ready-made image of the plot: a tree and little men located on it and under it. Each student receives a sheet with a picture of a tree and the little men located on it (but without numbering the figures).
The instructions are given in the following form:
Consider this tree. You see a lot of little people on it and next to it. Each of them has a different mood and takes a different position. Take a red marker and circle the person who reminds you of yourself, is similar to you, your mood at school and your position. We will check how attentive you are. Please note that each branch of the tree can be equal to your achievements and successes. Now take a green marker and circle the person you would like to be and in whose place you would like to be.
Modified version
Instructions: “Guys, look carefully at the drawing. In front of you is a forest school. The students in it are forest people. Each of them has a different mood, each is busy with his favorite thing, each occupies his own position. Perhaps the higher up the tree the forest man is, the higher his achievements, the more successful he is at school.
Take a brown pencil (felt-tip pen) and color the trunk and branches of the tree. And when you color, carefully examine each person: where he is located, what he is doing. (Children paint the tree.)
Now take a red pencil (felt-tip pen) and color in the little person who reminds you of yourself, is similar to you, your mood at school and your position.
Now take a green pencil (felt-tip pen) and color in the person you would like to be and in whose place you would like to be.
It happens that some children ask permission to indicate the positions of two people. I believe that in this case their choice should not be limited, but it is necessary to record which person was marked first and which one second, since the relationship between these choices can be quite informative.
Interpretation of results
Interpretation of the results of the projective “Tree” technique is carried out based on what positions a given child chooses, with the position of which person he identifies his real and ideal position, and whether there are differences between them.
The interpretation was developed taking into account the experience of practical application of the technique and comparison of its results with observations of the behavior of children, data obtained from a conversation with the child.
For ease of explanation, each figure is assigned its own number.
The choice of position No. 1, 3, 6, 7 characterizes the attitude towards overcoming obstacles.
No. 2, 11, 12, 18, 19 - sociability, friendly support.
No. 4 - stability of the situation (the desire to achieve success without overcoming difficulties).
No. 5 - fatigue, general weakness, low strength, shyness.
No. 9 - motivation to have fun.
No. 13, 21 - detachment, isolation, anxiety.
No. 8 - detachment from the educational process, withdrawal into oneself.
No. 10, 15 - comfortable condition, normal adaptation.
No. 14 - crisis state, “falling into the abyss.”
Position No. 20 is often chosen as a prospect by students with high self-esteem and a leadership mindset.
It should be noted that children do not always understand position No. 16 as the position of “a little man who carries little man No. 17,” but tend to see it as a person supported and hugged by another.
Children are offered sheets with a ready-made image of the plot: a tree and little men located on it and under it. Each child receives two sheets of paper with a picture of a tree and the little men located on it (but without numbering the figures). There are eight circles above the tree.
Instruction 1:“Please color these circles with different colored pencils. Each circle must be the same color.”
We ask the client to color the circles before completing the main task in order to learn about his color preferences. Due to the fact that the circles are arranged in one row horizontally, we see what place each color occupies in the row. This procedure will show color benefits at the time of testing. During repeated testing, if the psychologist wants to find out color preferences, he will need to carry out this procedure again.
The first three circles are the dominant colors, the next two are neutrals and the last three are contested colors.
Instruction 2
We are working with the first drawing.
“Look at this tree. You see a lot of little people on it and next to it. Each of them has a different mood and takes different positions. Take a pencil (we use the colors with which the circles were painted) and color the little person who reminds you of yourself, is similar to you, and reflects your mood. We will check how attentive you are. Please note that each branch of the tree can be equal to your achievements and successes. Then take a pencil and color in the position of the person in whose place you would like to see your mom, dad, sister or brother, friend.”
We work with the second drawing.
“Now take a pencil and color in the little person you would like to be and in whose place you would like to be. After that, take a pencil and color the little man who reminds you of your mom, dad, sister or brother, friend.”
Drawing technique
I -
Mother -
Dad -
Sister or brother -
Friend -
Interpretation of results
The interpretation of the results is carried out based on what positions the child chooses, with whose position the little man identifies his real and ideal position, and whether there is a difference between them. We also pay attention to what positions the child chooses for his family members and friends and what the difference is between real and ideal.
Methodology « Tree» ( AUTHOR D. LAMPEN, ADAPTED BY L.P. PONOMARENKO) in psychodiagnostics is used by specialists to assess the success of a child’s adaptation to school.
As practice shows, both a psychologist and a primary school teacher can carry out diagnostics using this method. For this, there are detailed instructions and an “easy” interpretation of the results. But, I would like to immediately warn both teachers without psychological education and “young” (in terms of experience) colleagues that the results of the “Tree” method are best “supported” by the results of other methods. Which ones? We'll talk about this in the following articles :-)
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Method “Tree” L.P. Ponomarenko can be usedto assess the success of a child’s adaptation at the beginning of schooling and during the transition to secondary education. The technique allows you to quickly determine the characteristics of the adaptation process and identify possible problems for the child. Children, immersed in drawing activities, carry out the proposed tasks with pleasure and easily identify themselves with this or that person.
Students are offered sheets with a ready-made image of the plot: a tree and little men located on it and under it. Each student receives a sheet with a picture of a tree and the little people on it.(THIS IS IMPORTANT! THE FIGURES MUST BE WITHOUT NUMBERS).
It is not recommended to ask students to immediately sign their last name on the sheet, as this may influence their choice(when you take a sheet with a completed task from your child, tell him: “sign it”). For the same reason (may influence the child's choice) it is not recommended to give stimulus material (a sheet with a picture of a tree and little men located on it) with signed numbers of the figures.
The instructions are given in the following form:
“Look at this tree. You see a lot of little people on it and next to it. Each of them has a different mood and takes a different position.Take a red markerand color the little person who reminds you of yourself, is similar to you, your mood at school and your position. Perhaps the higher up the tree the little man is, the higher his achievements, the more successful he is in school. Nowtake a green markerand paint the little person you would like to be and in whose place you would like to be.”
It happens that some children ask permission to indicate the positions of two little men or independently designate two positions with the same color.
In this case, their choice should not be limited.
If you notice this during the technique (or when the child handed you his sheet with the tree), ask him to answer which of the two/three (and this happens!) people the child painted over first and which second.
WITH The relationship between these choices can be quite informative.
Interpretation of results:
Interpretation of the results of the projective “Tree” technique is carried out based on what positions a given student chooses, with the position of which person he identifies his real and ideal position, and whether there are differences between them.
The interpretation was developed taking into account the experience of practical application of the techniqueand comparing its results with observations of student behavior, data received from teachers and parents, and from conversations with the child.
For ease of explanation, each figure is assigned its own number.
It should be noted that students do not always understand position No. 16 as the position of “a little man who carries little man No. 17,” but tend to see it as a person supported and embraced by another.
Figure item number | Characteristic |
1, 3, 6, 7 | characterizes the mindset to overcome obstacles |
2, 11, 12, 18, 19 | sociability, friendly support |
stability of position (the desire to achieve success without overcoming difficulties) |
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fatigue, general weakness, low strength, shyness |
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motivation for fun |
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13, 21 | detachment, withdrawal, anxiety |
detachment from the educational process, withdrawal into oneself |
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10, 15 | comfortable condition, normal adaptation |
crisis state, “falling into the abyss” |
