The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between adolescents’ characteristics of responses to
mother-and-child drawings and their self-efficacy based on gender. For this purpose, data were collected from 425
middle and high school students in the metropolitan area from July 11 to July 15, 2016, and t-test and one-way
ANOVA were performed on the collected data by t- using SPSS 19.0. The Scheffé-test was conducted as a
post-test. The results of this study are as follows. First, there was a significant difference in the self-efficacy
response characteristics of adolescents according to gender in total self-efficacy and sub-scale self-confidence, and
in task difficulty preference. Second, as for self-efficacy based on adolescents’ characteristics of responses to
mother-and-child drawings, there were significant differences -for both male and female students regarding
thoughts of mother’s image and position on mother’s image. Significant differences also were found for male
students regarding position of child image, size of mother’s image, facial expressions of mother’s image, eye
contact of mother and in objects of intimacy. In addition, there were significant differences for female student
regarding thoughts on the image of the child, size of child image, and thoughts on the image of mother and
child. Given these results, this study shows that characteristics of responses to mother-and-child drawings can be
partially used as a painting test to examine adolescents’ self-efficacy and their psychological characteristics.