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Scores on a newly constructed measure of social egocentrism were correlated with those on measures of spatial egocentricity and communicative egocentricity and with two measures of school-related behaviors, popularity with peers and academic achievement, for 12 boys and 12 girls at each grade/age. At the kindergarten level, visual-motor skills and auditory skills correlated significantly with social egocentricity, .43 (p < .01), and .49 (P < .01), respectively. Correlations of academic achievement and egocentricity at Grades 2, 4, and 6 were all low and non-significant. Similarly, all correlations between egocentricity and popularity were low with only one correlation of .18 for communicative egocentrism and popularity being significant. The three measures of egocentricity intercorrelated moderately, the highest between spatial and communicative egocentrism (r = .45, p < .01).

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