Research Article
A New Tool to Explore Children’s Social Competencies: The Preschool Competition Questionnaire
Table 4
Comparison of average scores for boys () and girls ()1 on PCQ and SCBE scales.
| | | Boys | Girls | | | | | (SD) | (SD) |
| | PCQ | | | | | | Other-referenced competition | 2.60 (0.86)
| 2.54 (0.84)
| 1.04 | .297 | | Task-oriented competition | 3.57 (0.77) | 3.74 (0.71) | −3.32 | .001 | | Maintenance of dominance hierarchy | 4.23 (1.10) | 4.16 (1.07) | 0.99 | .325 | | SCBE | | | | | | Social competence | 3.95 (0.75) | 4.24 (0.76) | −5.37 | .000 | | Anxiety/withdrawal | 2.17 (0.75) | 2.16 (0.76) | 0.24 | .813 | | Aggressiveness/irritability | 2.49 (0.93) | 2.32 (0.81) | 2.69 | .007 |
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1For subjects with missing values, scores were weighted according to the number of missing items.
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