Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for C-BARQ subscales.

	All Sar dogs					Non-FEMA SAR dogs		FEMA SAR dogs
Subscale	Mean	SD	Skewness	Cronbach's Alpha	Number of Items	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Trainability	3.28	0.34	−0.42	0.48	8	3.26	0.35	3.29	0.33
Aggression toward strangers	0.35	0.39	1.72	0.83	10	0.50	0.49	0.27	0.30
Aggression toward owner	0.04	0.16	4.64	0.78	8	0.08	0.25	0.02	0.07
Fear and aggression toward dogs	0.64	0.53	1.31	0.81	8	0.74	0.62	0.59	0.47
Aggression toward dogs	0.91	0.79	1.12	0.87	4	1.04	0.90	0.85	0.71
Fear of dogs	0.39	0.59	1.63	0.87	4	0.51	0.71	0.32	0.50
Dog rivalry	0.53	0.57	2.10	0.74	4	0.70	0.68	0.34	0.47
Chasing	1.25	1.00	−0.21	0.84	4	1.49		1.11	0.89
Fear of strangers	0.12	0.30	2.01	0.82	4	0.18	0.36	0.08	0.25
Non-social fear	0.32	0.38	1.47	0.65	6	0.44	0.47	0.25	0.29
Separation problems	0.30	0.43	1.71	0.78	8	0.43	0.51	0.22	0.36
Touch sensitivity	0.47	0.59	1.61	0.49	4	0.59	0.65	0.40	0.55
Excitability	2.08	0.68	0.003	0.78	6	2.14	0.70	2.04	0.68
Attachment/Attention-seeking	2.00	0.63	0.14	0.65	6	2.23	0.69	1.86	0.55
Energy	2.61	0.81	−0.18	0.74	2	2.55	0.81	2.65	0.81