Two Additional Studies in the Dynamics of School Social Structure of Classroom Seating and School Dances

Abstract

THE PURPOSE of this study was to determine to what extent class seating, on the basis of unlike mental health status, will effect growth in mental health as compared to the growth patterns of a comparable class, its organization unchanged as a result of mental health and soci ometric testing. During this period, the school year of 1949-50, an investigation was also made into the relationship of a child's degree of social par ticipation and that child's mental health and sociometric status.