The types of interpersonal skills characteristic of all pregenital modes

of adjustment are in conflict with some of the primary values of our society. The use of such means of relating to others must, therefore, create considerable personal difficulty.' Beginning with this inference, Miller and Stine hypothesize that 'the more an individual tends to use pregenital modes of relating to others, the more he will be rejected by his peers'. A story-completion test was constructed to measure pregenital fixations; rejection by peers was explored by means of sociometric techniques. Subjects were elementary school students, seven to fourteen years of age. The authors found frequency of pregenital content in the story-completion test (oral words, direct aggressiveness, magical thinking) to be directly correlated with rejection of subjects by their classmates.