Sociometric scores were obtained for 1,437 male and 1,505 female students in eight high schools throughout the U. S. Four scores were obtained for each student: attractiveness to members of the same sex, attractiveness to members of the opposite sex, rejection by members of the same sex, and rejection by members of the opposite sex. Correlations among these scores and factor analysis showed that popularity scores were independent of rejection scores. The implications of these results for factor analytic model construction were discussed.
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