This article reports on a preliminary empirical investigation designed to operationalize the construct of the representation of the group-as-a-whole and to assess its validity by examining its relationships to personality as well as to content and dynamic aspects of the group. In the context of a group-relations conference, 291 participants in 29 self-study groups rated their views of their own group. Exploratory factor analysis of these adjective ratings yielded a meaningful 4-factor solution: Rejecting, Incomprehensible, Threatening Versus Benign, and Unelaborated. These constellations were found to be associated with leader gender, group culture, participants' characteristic style of regulating personal boundaries, and defensive group processes, in keeping with theoretical expectation. Findings were discussed in terms of the deployment of fusion fantasies and associated anxieties in the early stages of group life.