The PROKOS questionnaire is intended mainly for persons with the high or middle educational level, can be used in diagnosis of employees in situations requiring selection/transfer. It enables to discover strong/weak points in the social functioning, thus helping in defining training needs. The diagnosis with the PROKOS may also help in revealing more severe deficits in the area of social competences or lowering of the self-appraisal of the social functioning and agency when contacting others, what may be the basis for therapy. The manual gives some examples of such applications.

Reliability

High indices of internal consistency and test-retest reliability, for the general score and for separate scales as well.

Validity

Confirmed, as expected, by correlations of scores with social and emotional competencies measured in another way, intensity of the natural social training, interests, temperament/personality traits, and intergroup differences. There are also data which speak for the discriminant validity of the particular scales. There is also a correspondence of self- PROKOS description and competence assessment of examinees performed by others.

Norms

Standard ten, separately for men and women, based on a 662-strong sample.

The test is also available as an online examination on the Epsilon Platform and as an option for entering and calculating scores from the paper-and-pencil version on the Epsilon Platform.