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This document provides summaries of two measures of social competences: 1) The Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire (ICQ-15) which contains 15 questions that assess respondents' confidence in their ability to initiate relationships, provide negative assertion, emotional support, self-disclosure, and manage conflicts. 2) The Tromsø Social Intelligence Scale which contains 21 questions that measure social information processing, social skills, and social awareness. Respondents indicate how well each statement describes them on a 7-point scale. The annex contains brief descriptions of these two measurement instruments to assess social competences, as mentioned in the main working paper on the relevance and assessment of personality characteristics.

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Tromso Social Intelligence Scale

This document provides summaries of two measures of social competences: 1) The Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire (ICQ-15) which contains 15 questions that assess respondents' confidence in their ability to initiate relationships, provide negative assertion, emotional support, self-disclosure, and manage conflicts. 2) The Tromsø Social Intelligence Scale which contains 21 questions that measure social information processing, social skills, and social awareness. Respondents indicate how well each statement describes them on a 7-point scale. The annex contains brief descriptions of these two measurement instruments to assess social competences, as mentioned in the main working paper on the relevance and assessment of personality characteristics.

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Personality Matters: Relevance and Assessment of Personality Characteristics

OECD Education Working Paper No. 157

ANNEX H

MEASURES OF SOCIAL COMPETENCES

By Mr. Milos Kankaras, OECD

This document is an annex to the OECD


working paper entitled Personality
Matters: Relevance and Assessment of
Personality Characteristics, by Miloš
Kankaraš. The annex contains a
selection of measurement instruments
designed for assessment of social
competences.
ANNEX H - PERSONALITY MATTERS: RELEVANCE AND ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS © OECD 2017

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The Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire (brief form – ICQ-15)

Source: Adapted from Coroiu, A. et al. (2015), “Brief form of the Interpersonal Competence
Questionnaire (ICQ-15): Development and preliminary validation with a German population sample”,
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol. 31/4, pp. 272-279,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000234.

Instructions

Please read the following statements and indicate how confident you feel in your abilities to complete
the described action by choosing one of the five choices below each question.

Answer categories

1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
I’m always poor at this I’m only fair at this I’m OK at this I’m always good at this

Initiation
1. Finding and suggesting things to do with new people whom, you find interesting and attractive.
2. Introducing yourself to someone you might like to get to know/date.
3. Calling (on the phone) a new date/acquaintance to setup a time to get together and do something.

Negative assertion

4. Confronting your close companion when he/she has broken a promise.


5. Telling a companion that he/she has done something to hurt your feelings.
6. Telling a date/acquaintance that he/she has done something that made you angry.

Emotional support

7. Helping a close companion get to the heart of the problem he/she is experiencing.
8. Being able to say and do things to support a close companion when she/he is feeling down.
9. When a close companion needs help and support, being able to give advice in ways that are well
received.

Disclosure

10. Confiding in a new friend/date and letting him/her see your softer, more sensitive side.
11. Letting a new companion get to know the “real” you.
12. Letting down your productive “outer shell” and trusting a close companion.

Conflict management

13. Being able to admit that you might be wrong when a disagreement with a close companion begins to
build into a serious fight.
14. Being able to take a companion’s perspective in a fight and really understand his or her point of view.
15. Not exploding at a close companion (even when it’s justified) in order to avoid a damaging
conflict

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The Tromsø Social Intelligence Scale

Source: Silvera, D.H., M. Martinussen and T.I. Dahl (2001), “The Tromsø Social Intelligence Scale, a
self-report measure of social intelligence”, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Vol. 42/4,
pp. 313-319, http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9450.00242.

Instruction

For each item, indicate how well it describes you on a scale from:
1 (describes me extremely poorly) to 7 (describes me extremely well):

1. I can predict other people’s behavior.


2. I often feel that it is difficult to understand others’ choices.(R)
3. I know how my actions will make others feel.
4. I often feel uncertain around new people who I don’t know.(R)
5. People often surprise me with the things they do. (R)
6. I understand other peoples’ feelings.
7. I fit in easily in social situations.
8. Other people become angry with me without me being able to explain why.(R)
9. I understand others’ wishes.
10. I am good at entering new situations and meeting people for the first time.
11. It seems as though people are often angry or irritated with me when I say what I think. (R)
12. I have a hard time getting along with other people. (R)
13. I find people unpredictable. (R)
14. I can often understand what others are trying to accomplish without the need for them to say
anything.
15. It takes a long time for me to get to know others well. (R)
16. I have often hurt others without realizing it. (R)
17. I can predict how others will react to my behavior.
18. I am good at getting on good terms with new people.
19. I can often understand what others really mean through their expression, body language, etc.
20. I frequently have problems finding good conversation topics. (R)
21. I am often surprised by others’ reactions to what I do. (R)

Interpretation (division of the items across the three subscales):


Social information processing: 1, 3, 6, 9, 14, 17, 19
Social skills: 4, 7, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20
Social awareness: 2, 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, 21.

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