65 preschool children were assessed for use of personal space and body orientation with a model-room projective technique and video tapes of behavior in the actual setting. Correlations were computed to express the relationship between the projected and observed physical distance and body-orientation scores. In the case of distance and body-orientation variables, zero correlations were obtained between the projective measures and the means of observed measures obtained by time sampling the video recordings.
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