Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire.
ICQ
- What it measures
- interpersonal competence across five domains - Initiating relationships, Self-disclosure, Asserting displeasure/negative assertion, Providing emotional support, and Conflict management
- Length and format
- 40 (8 per domain). 5-point competence/comfort rating; five domain scores (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- several incl. ES, ZH, NL, TR; used internationally in social-competence research
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Buhrmester, D., Furman, W., Wittenberg, M. T., & Reis, H. T. (1988). Five domains of interpersonal competence in peer relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55(6), 991-1008.
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