Some Correlates of Mehrabian's Scales of Affiliative Tendency and Sensitivity to Rejection

Summary

Assessment of approach and avoidance aspects of affiliation motivation was reviewed. Ss were 60 white male university students. Split-half reliabilities were .71 and .60. Convergent and divergent aspects of validity were investigated in terms of self-report measures. Scales that correlated significantly with Affiliative Tendency converged meaningfully in terms of both contents and intercorrelations; those with nonsignificant correlations could also have been expected to diverge. For Sensitivity to Rejection, convergent and divergent patterns appeared but were less clear. The two scores were summed to obtain a Dependency score, which showed meaningful correlations, too. Affiliative Tendency increased with increasing ordinal position.