title: A note on the relationship between the comfortable interpersonal distance scale and the sociometric status of emotionally disturbed children.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between two measures of social attraction or status: namely, the recently developed Comfortable Interpersonal Distance (CID) Scale and a traditional measure of sociometric status. Both measures were recorded for a sample of emotionally disturbed, preadolescent boys who were in residential treatment. The results indicated that the two measures were very highly correlated. This finding means that the more a boy was liked by his cottage peers, the closer these peers indicated that they would like to sit next to the boy in a room. In other words, physical interpersonal distance seems to be nonverbal way of communicating liking for a person.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D010379:Peer Group; D010550:Personal Space; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D012928:Social Desirability; D013037:Spatial Behavior