A New Tool to Explore Children’s Social Competencies: The Preschool Competition Questionnaire

Table 5

Comparison of means (standard deviation) for dimensions of competition for the four groups of children.

	Group 4	Group 3	Group 2	Group 1	Oneway ANOVA; (3, 770)
	()	()	()	()
	low competitive	assertive/; other-referenced	assertive/; task-oriented	high competitive
Other-referenced	1.90^b (0.54)	3.04^a(0.86)	2.43^c (0.50)	3.87^d(0.55)	246.06^3
Task-oriented	3.20^b (0.63)	3.02^a (0.45)	4.19^c (0.48)	4.20^c (0.39)	286.57^3
Maintenance of dominance hierarchy	2.99^b (0.71)	4.72^a (0.85)	4.53^a (0.74)	5.07^c (0.82)	258.74^3

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^a,b,c,dDifferent letters mean significant differences in two by two comparisons (Scheffé: ).