A CONSISTENCY MEASURE OF SOCIOMETRIC ST ATVS RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELECTED PERSONALITY FACTORS

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  • C. EWING COOLEY Author

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The effectiveness of sociometric techniques as estimates of personal adjustment has been reviewed by Bonney and Fessenden and Gronlund. The relationship between sociometric scores and various methods of personality assessment are not marked when total groups are studied by correlations. When a group with high choice-status is contrasted with a lowchoice- status group, the studies consistently show the high choice-status groups to be reliably superior in some psychologically and/or socially approved types of behavior. Low correlations suggest that sub-groups exist between these extremes that are not characterized by the progressive increase of personal adjustment with status that the contrast of high choicestatus to low choice-status groupings suggests.

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2025-01-14

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Vol. 29 (1976): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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