Cooperativeness and Competitiveness: Dimensionality and Gender Specificity of the Classroom Life Instrument

A total of 240 (35 males and 195 females) undergraduate students completed a scale assessing competitiveness and cooperativeness. The results showed that cooperativeness and competitiveness are orthogonal characteristics, contrary to the popular notion that they fall on the ends of a single continuum. Secondly, the results showed that both competitiveness and cooperativeness are basically gender-neutral characteristics.