The Slovenian version of the Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation Scale – Preschool Edition (OLSP): the second preliminary validation

The contribution presents the first part of the second validation study on the Slovenian version of the Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation Scale – Preschool Edition (OLSP). The study was implemented with a sample of 95 Slovenian kindergarten children aged from 2;6 to 6;5 years, uniformly sampled by age and gender. OLSP was filled out by the childrens' kindergarten teachers as well as their assisstants. The obtained results show that internal consistency and interrater reliability of the eight basic and the four composite scales of OLSP are satisfactory. No significant gender differences were obtained for any of the scales. The Dependent-Autonomous scale was positively related to the childrens' age, while the Internalizing Problems and General Adaptation composite scales related to age in the expected direction with medium effect sizes. However, the age differences on the latter did not reach statistical significance mainly due to small sample size.