The degree to which a teen's close friend was well-liked was assessed using a limited nomination sociometric procedure. Each adolescent, their closest friend and two other target peers named by the adolescent were asked to nominate up to 10 peers in their grade with whom they would most like to spend time on a Saturday night and an additional 10 peers in their grade with whom they would least like to spend time on a Saturday night. This study used grade-based nominations (e.g., students could nominate anyone in their grade at school) rather than classroom based nominations due to the age and classroom structure of the school that all participants attended. As a result, instead of friendship nominations being done by 15 to 30 children in a given classroom, each teen's nominations were culled from among 72 to 146 teens (depending on the teen's grade level), these nominators comprised approximately 38% of the entire student population in these grades. Although this differs from the coverage achieved in classroom rating procedures, the large number of raters for each teen (in essence,
