Analysis of the Relationship Between Intelligence, Sensory Processing Sensitivity and the Digital Tree Drawing Test: A Feasibility Study

Johanna Emelie Heger, Johanna Emelie Heger, Dorothea Isselstein-Mohr, Sebastian Unger, Thomas Ostermann

2025

Abstract

The personality trait of intelligence has a research history rich in psychometric tradition, whereas sensory processing sensitivity is a young construct, which in its conceptualization shows similarities with other psychological and psychopathological concepts such as introversion, autism spectrum disorder, but also various giftedness concepts. The digital tree drawing test recently achieved good results in the diagnostics of cognitive performance losses in adults. The present study investigates whether the characteristics of intelligence and sensitivity are related and can be mapped in a second step using the digital tree test in the drawing process. For this purpose, 19 children and adolescents with existing intelligence and sensitivity diagnoses underwent the digital tree test. The results were evaluated using correlation analyses. Hardly any significant correlations were found between intelligence and sensitivity. Contrary to the previous assumption, the correlations found were negative. Drawing parameters, on the other hand, showed clear correlations with both traits, but here primarily with the sensitivity facets, so that drawing process variables could be identified which appear to be relevant for the personality traits. Future research could investigate in greater depth the direction and predictive value of these correlations in order to expand the diagnostic repertoire of psychological practitioners using the digital tree drawing test.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Heger J., Isselstein-Mohr D., Unger S. and Ostermann T. (2025). Analysis of the Relationship Between Intelligence, Sensory Processing Sensitivity and the Digital Tree Drawing Test: A Feasibility Study. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-731-3, SciTePress, pages 515-522. DOI: 10.5220/0013152400003911

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf25,
author={Johanna Heger and Dorothea Isselstein-Mohr and Sebastian Unger and Thomas Ostermann},
title={Analysis of the Relationship Between Intelligence, Sensory Processing Sensitivity and the Digital Tree Drawing Test: A Feasibility Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF},
year={2025},
pages={515-522},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013152400003911},
isbn={978-989-758-731-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF
TI - Analysis of the Relationship Between Intelligence, Sensory Processing Sensitivity and the Digital Tree Drawing Test: A Feasibility Study
SN - 978-989-758-731-3
AU - Heger J.
AU - Isselstein-Mohr D.
AU - Unger S.
AU - Ostermann T.
PY - 2025
SP - 515
EP - 522
DO - 10.5220/0013152400003911
PB - SciTePress