Reassessment of inferring personality traits from Bender-Gestalt drawing styles

Fifty patients with closure difficulty on the Bender-Gestalt and 50 patients with edging tendencies on the Bender Gestalt were assessed for possible personality traits associated with those drawing styles. Patients with and without the drawing styles were compared using MMPI data. Patients who drew along the edge of the paper showed no significant difference in MMPI scores when compared to non-edgers. Patients with closure difficulty were significantly higher on Scale O of the MMPI than were the non-closure difficulty patients. The difference was not considered to be interpretatively important.