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The aim of present study is to examine the effects of density on human interpersonal relationships in daily-life settings. It was designed to explore relationships between the density and the children's friend-formation in residential areas. An investigation was conducted about children's friends and their play after school at primary schools in high density areas. The subjects were boys and girls aged 10 and 11. The density was measured by using the area of a housing block and a school district as the denominater respectively. The friend-formation was intended to be grasped through three elements; the number of friends, the friends' composition on school year and their geographical distribution. Children's play was measured through two aspects of time and place. In this first paper several items were examined before beginning the discussion of relations between the area's density and the children's friend-formation. Their items were concerned with several non-physical factors, the housing type and the crowding in dwellings. As a result of their examinations it was found that there were differences in the friend-formation between male and female and between participants and non-participants in the activities of community-group and that there were scarcely connected with the housing type and the crowding in dwellings.
