Relational Analysis

Relational analysis is a method of measuring interpersonal relations within a group. Relational analysis has been developed on the basis of sociometry, with the addition of measurement of social perception. It was proposed by American psychologist Renato Tagiuri. Tagiuri believed that the individual’s subjective judgment of their interpersonal relations is of great significance. Hence he expanded the contents of sociometry to include the subjective judgment items of social perception, i.e., to let group members judge their interpersonal relations status within the group. Tagiuri once had 10 subjects unknown to each other discuss questions and then reply “in this discussion group, who do you like, who likes you, who likes whom, who doesn’t like whom.” The result showed that people who could correctly judge who liked themselves might not be able to correctly judge who liked whom; on the contrary, people who could correctly judge who liked whom might not be able to identify who liked...