Development of Elementary School Social Competence Questionnaire and Analysis of Its Psychometric Characteristics Cover Image

Socialinės kompetencijos pradinėje mokykloje klausimyno kūrimas ir psichometrinių rodiklių analizė: sąsajos su populiarumu klasėje, santykiais su mokytoja ir mokykliniu nerimastingumu
Development of Elementary School Social Competence Questionnaire and Analysis of Its Psychometric Characteristics

Author(s): Šarūnė Magelinskaitė-Legkauskienė, Visvaldas Legkauskas, Albina Kepalaitė
Subject(s): Education, School education, Educational Psychology, Evaluation research, Sociology of Education
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: social competence; elementary school pupils; student-teacher relationship; popularity in class; school anxiety;

Summary/Abstract: While social competence is widely studied, relatively few studies are aimed at investigating social competence at elementary school years. Furthermore, social competence tends to be dependent on social and cultural context; hence instrument developed in one country may require significant adaptations in other countries. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to develop a Lithuanian questionnaire for assessment of social competence at elementary school. Individual items for the Elementary School Social Competence Questionnaire were drawn from the Early Developement Instrument (Janus et al., 2007), the Social Emotional School Readiness Scale (Bustin, 2007), and the Social Competence Inventory (Rydell et al., 1997). The study was conducted in two waves. In the first wave subjects were 437 first graders (198 boys and 239 girls) from Lithuania. In the second wave, which took place a year after, 192 boys and 228 girls participated.

  • Issue Year: 127/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 132-147
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Lithuanian
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