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. 2017 Oct 18;8:1836. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01836

Table 2.

Agreement between procedures for each sociometric type and number of students for each procedure.

Sample 1 Sample 2
CD/NB GB/CD GB/NB CD/NB GB/CD GB/NB
Preferred k 0.56 0.80 0.74 0.68 0.85 0.74
N 33/14/14-33 23/33/23-33 23/14/14-23 44/24/24-44 39/44/36-47 39/24/24-30
Rejected k 0.48 0.67 0.62 0.64 0.81 0.75
N 35/14/13-36 29/35/23-41 29/14/14-29 48/26/25-49 41/48/37-52 41/26/26-41
Neglected k 0.85 0.74 0.67 0.69 0.78 0.61
N 39/39/34-44 28/39/26-41 28/39/24-43 42/64/39-75 47/42/36-53 47/64/37-74
Controversial k 0.42 0.57 0.66 0.65 0.86 0.73
N 11/3/3-11 6/11/5-12 6/3/3-6 20/10/10-20 17/20/16-21 17/10/10-17

CD, Coie and Dodge method (1983); NB, Newcomb and Bukowski method (1983); GB, García Bacete method (2006).

k, Cohen's kappa score.

xx/yy/aa-ss. xx, students classified by first method; yy, students classified by second method; aa, students classified by both method (number of agreements in bold); ss, students classified by only one of the two method (in italics).