The relationship between teachers and students: Children’s pictorial representation and teachers evaluation
The student-teacher relationship (STR) in a primary school was examined through children’s drawings of a positive and a negative situation and how they related to teachers’ answers both to the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale (STRS) as well as to a School Adaptation Scale (SAS). Drawings were scored with PAIR, an instrument devised to measure Cohesion (psychological relatedness) and Distancing (psychological autonomy) between partners. Cohesion prevailed over Distancing in the drawings of the positive situations, while the opposite happened in the negative situations.