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

Table 2

Descriptive statistics for the PCQ scales.

Scales	Alpha	Average	Standard deviation	Skewness	Kurtosis index	Test-retest correlation^1	Intercorrelation
							1	2	3
(1) Other-referenced competition; (8 items)	.89	2.61	0.86	.468	.113	.92***	—	−.02	.45***
(2) Task-oriented competition; (6 items)	.75	3.65	0.75	−.071	−.385	.80***		—	.26***
(3) Dominance maintenance hierarchy; (3 items)	.74	4.22	1.06	−.255	−.434	.69***			—

Notes. ¹ The test-retest correlation was calculated for a sample of 27 children.
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