A modified version of Kuethe's technique was administered to 48 seventh-grade normal boys. 27 of the subjects were dormitory residents, the remaining 21 lived at home. Contrary to expectation a positive correlation was found for peer acceptance and distance between figures. There were no significant differences between the accepted and nonaccepted groups or between home and dormitory residents. Boy-boy figures were placed closer to one another than the figures of other pairs. The findings were discussed as they relate to previous research with disturbed children.
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