I am designing a questionnaire to youth and we have to include a scale to measure competitiveness. Only we found a Scale of Anxiety in sport, but it is no applicable in this case.
Have you seen these?:
Smither, R. D., & Houston, J. M. (1992). The nature of competitiveness: The development and validation of the competitiveness index. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 52(2), 407-418.
Robins, R. W., Hendin, H. M., & Trzesniewski, K. H. (2001). Measuring global self-esteem: Construct validation of a single-item measure and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Personality and social psychology bulletin, 27(2), 151-161.
Zou, S., Taylor, C. R., & Osland, G. E. (1998). The EXPERF scale: a cross-national generalized export performance measure. Journal of international Marketing, 37-58.
Brown, S. P., Cron, W. L., & Slocum Jr, J. W. (1998). Effects of trait competitiveness and perceived intraorganizational competition on salesperson goal setting and performance. The Journal of Marketing, 88-98.
Houston, J. M., Mcintire, S. A., Kinnie, J., & Terry, C. (2002). A factorial analysis of scales measuring competitiveness. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 62(2), 284-298.
Mowen, J. C. (2004). Exploring the trait of competitiveness and its consumer behavior consequences. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 14(1), 52-63.
I fully endorse Houston's work especially for what you are talking about.
Also check the Achenbach System...Child Behavioral Checklist and the Youth Outcome Questionnaire
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