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

Table 6

Comparison of means (standard deviation) for different variables for the four groups of children.

	Low competitive	Assertive/; other-referenced	Assertive/; task-oriented	High competitive	Oneway ANOVA; (3, 765)^A
Social competence	3.82^a (.80)	3.64^a (.66)	4.49^b (.63)	4.26^b (.64)	70.54^3
Anxiety/withdrawal	2.56^b (.97)	2.27^a (.62)	1.86^ac (.52)	2.03^a (.58)	44.62^3
Aggressiveness/; irritability	1.92^b (.61)	3.05^a (.91)	2.18^c (.59)	3.21^a (.95)	120.20^3
Dominance rating	0.31^b (.29)	0.60^a (.32)	0.58^a (.30)	0.75^c (.30)	39.27^3

^A (3, 535) for dominance rating.
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^a,b,c,dDifferent letters mean significant differences in two by two comparisons (Scheffé: ).