The purpose of the study was to look at the factor structure of the perceptions of the environment of 210 male and 205 female rural high school students. Stern's High School Characteristics Inventory based upon the need-press taxonomy of Murray was used to assess the structure. Five factors were identified as accounting for 47.5% of the variance.
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