Using the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire (OSIQ), the study examined the self-image of rural high school youth. The primary subjects were 127 randomly selected students from a rural community high school. The community was predominantly white and middle-class. A second rural sample consisted of 42 students selected from 3 tiny country schools from another midwestern state. A self-descriptive personality test of adjustment, the OSIQ measured adjustment in 11 areas representing important aspects of the teenager's psychological world: impulse control, emotional tone, body- and self-image, social relations, morals, sex attitudes, family relations, external mastery, vocational and educational goals, psychopathology, and superior adjustment. Each item consisted of a statement with 6-option Likert-type response scale. Also studied were school size, parental education and occupation, sibling age and sex, and adolescents' sex, age, occupational and educational aspirations, religiosity, and attitudes toward women. Findings included: youth from the large consolidated school showed lower self-images than youth attending the small country schools; younger youth frequently showed lower self-image on body- and self-image, vocational and educational goals, and sex attitudes; girls felt better about themselves than did boys on items measuring morals, while the reverse sex effect held for emotional tone, body- and self-image, and psychopathology. (NQ)