The present paper is intended to offer stronger grounds to validity of Mizushima’s (1986) "schematic projective technique". For this purpose, the relations between mother’s image and dependence on mother and "schema" were examined through two studys.

　Three factorical indicator of "schema" were found by principal component analysis ((1) distance from core of self to mother-card, (2) degree of openness of frame of self, and (3) gradient of frame of self). Advocation of validity of this technique was justified by (a) significant negative relation between core-card distance and the degree of positive feelings to mother or dependence on mother, (b) significant positive relation between the degree of openness of self and receptive feelings to mother, and (c) the tendency that subjects who had good relation to mother were likely to prefer "close-distance and wide-openness schema".