Abstract
The purpose of this research is to investigate the structure of interpersonal relations in the class room setting in terms of interpersonal attraction and perceived similarity of the amount of reources among members.
By extending Festinger's theory of social comparison processes and the conception of two dimensional leadership functions, it was hypothe-sized that interpersonal attraction resulted from a reciprocal positive estimation on task ability and also from an unreciprocal positive estimation on task ability under the condition of superior's consideration which was perceived by inferior.
The hypothesis was supported by measures of member reaction with group by using near sociometric and guess-who-test for three seventh grade school classes.
The consideration function as to social comparison processes and teacher's influence to the structure of interpersonal interaction in the class room are discussed.
