Appendix Table A.
Item Factor Loadings for the Social Competence Scale
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| Emotion Regulation Subscale | ||||
| Can accept things not going his/her way(1) | .428 | .449 | .527 | .490 |
| Copes well with failure (1) | .310 | .305 | .665 | .662 |
| Thinks before acting | .554 | .595 | .564 | .568 |
| Can calm down by himself/herself when excited or “all wound up” | .490 | .480 | .584 | .603 |
| Does what he/she is told to do | .606 | .615 | .633 | .642 |
| Controls his/her temper when there is a disagreement | .563 | .613 | .672 | .679 |
| Prosocial/Communication Scale | ||||
| Works out problems with friends or brothers and sisters on his/her own | .456 | .484 | .500 | .503 |
| Is very good at understanding other people’s feelings (2) | .563 | .587 | .470 | .489 |
| Shares things with others (4) | .693 | .715 | .744 | .685 |
| Is helpful to others (3)(4) | .602 | .540 | .800 | .740 |
| Listens to others’ points of view (3) | .575 | .530 | .649 | .661 |
| Can give suggestions and opinions without being bossy (2) | .485 | .469 | .591 | .574 |
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| Confirmatory Factor Analysis Model Fit | 1-factor model: | 1-factor model: | ||
| χ2 (50)= 56.698, | χ2 (50) = 84.196, | |||
| p=.239, CFI=.984, | p<.001, CFI=.928, | |||
| RMSEA=.029; | RMSEA=.081; | |||
| 2-factor model: | 2-factor model: | |||
| χ2 (49) = 52.65, | χ2 (49)= 84.18, | |||
| CFI=.99, | CFI=.93, | |||
| RMSEA=.02 | RMSEA=.08 | |||
Note. In both factor models, we allowed some items to be correlated (based on modification indices in MPLUS) to have adequate fit. Numbers (1) (2) (3) and (4) indicate item-pairs that we allowed to be correlated (e.g., we allowed “Can accept things not going his/her way (1)” to be related to “Copes well with failure (1)”).