This study analyzed the association between emotional problems and the writing errors of 88 second-grade students attending elementary public school, by means of the Human Figure Drawing and an Evaluation of Learning Difficulties in Writing. Amongst the results, significant differences were evidenced by the Anova test among the average of the word total errors in relation to the three groups, which were constituted based on the intensity of emotional problems. However, Tukey test showed that these differences are justified by groups one and three. Regarding gender, the found tendency was not the same for girls. Also the emotional problems were associated with the errors in writing. Children with learning disabilities showed anxiety and poor self-concept, denoting feelings of inadequacy and guilt related to non-elaborated aggressive impulses and concern with sexual impulses, communication troubles and shyness f.
Learning disabilities; writing; emotion
