I'm looking for a brief report on instruments that may be useful to assess interpersonal behavior, social competence, adaptative behavior in adolescents. It will be very useful if the assessment tool covers both the prosoacial and antisocial/externalizing spectrum. I hope the community could guide my search.
the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire is one measure you could use. However you should be aware that it is more of a screening tool and can prove to be a blunt instrument when you used in a community or more normative sample.
I would also recommend the SDQ as it is internationally quite reliable, validated und freely available in many languages. An alternative would be the Achenbach scales (i.e. ASEBA, CBCL, YSR) however they have an even stronger clinical focus. Apart from that self-reports are usually not as good as behavior observation measures in standardized situations if you want to measure social behavior.
Thanks Christina and Julia, I´ll have a look at the instruments you recommended.
I've checked Weinberger self restraint subscale from the Weinberger adjustment inventory and considered an option. Any comments about it?
Best wishes.
Hi! In my opinion the CASE provides a measure of stressful life experiences of relevance to children and adolescents. There are versions to be completed by the young person themselves as well as a carer. Items for the CASE were designed to parallel a standard clinical interview measure of life events, the PACE [Sandberg, S., et al. (1993). Assessment of psychosocial experiences in childhood: Methodological issues and some illustrative findings. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 34(6), 879-897]. The CATS is a developmentally sensitive, general measure of negative self-statements across both internalizing and externalizing problems. Four separate subscales of cognitive content are assessed including physical threat, social threat, personal failure, and hostility. The CATS is designed for children and adolescents aged between 8 and 17 years of age. And the Personal Experiences Checklist provides a self-report assessment of a young person’s personal experience of being bullied. The measure is suitable for both girls and boys aged 8 to 16 years and it covers the full range of bullying behaviours, including covert relational forms of bullying and cyber bullying. There are four subscales: physical, relational, cultural, and cyber. Als the YSR, SDQ, Achenbach but I already saw they recommended those...
Perceived Social Competence Scale (Anderson-Butcher et al., 2008) may also be relevant. The scale was used in order to measure perceived social competence. Participants rate their levels of agreement with 6 statements using a Likert scale from 1 (‘‘not at all”) to 5 (‘‘very much”).
Anderson-Butcher, D., Iachini, A. L., & Amorose, A. J. (2008). Initial Reliability and Validity of the Perceived Social Competence Scale. Research on Social Work Practice, 18(1), 47-54.
Thanks to all of you. I found a review article by Crowe et al (2011) that may be useful. It post the reference if it is of your interest.
L.M. Crowe, M.H. Beauchamp, C. Catroppa, V. Anderson (2011). Social function assessment tools for children and adolescents: A systematic review from 1988 to 2010. Clinical Psychology Review, 31, (5), 767–785.
It's url is http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272735811000560#.
There is a Compendium of assessments from the CDC. It is called Measuring Bullying Victimization, Perpetration, and Bystander Experiences:
A Compendium of Assessment Tools
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You may want to consider the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) approach. It is an approach developed out of communication theory (rather than psychometric theory) so it is similar in content. There are translations in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Talalog. Translations are being developed in Italian, Russian and Erdu. It is free to use and utilizes a mass collaboration model to support effective use. But if you just want a measure to hand people and tell them to fill it out, you should look elsewhere. There are a number of different choices but I agree with others about the SDQ. Happy to send you a copy of the book 'Communimetrics' if you are interested in a somewhat different approach.
Thanks, John. Of course I'm interested in the book you mentioned.
Thanks Susan, I've checked the compendium and it may be very useful.
I would highly suggest taking at look at this text: "Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents". You can find a copy at: http://www.amazon.com/Behavioral-Emotional-Assessment-Children-Adolescents/dp/0415884608/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1388294017&sr=1-1&keywords=Behavioral%2C+Social%2C+and+Emotional+Assessment+of+Children+and+Adolescents
The text is a lot more affordable if you go with the electronic version.
download this document... it's an instrument you may be interested in with regard to assessing Social Skills in Adolescence
http://www.google.com.sa/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&ved=0CFUQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cscbroward.org%2Fdocs%2Frepository%2Fmost2006ssaadolescent.pdf&ei=1LC_Uuq-DcSq7QaR54DQBQ&usg=AFQjCNEb2d3wOFT7uVJOtaopftWJ2lUDZA
In addition to the above, you might also want to look at a lack of prosocial emotions (callous-unemotional traits) as part of your assessment. http://psyc.uno.edu/Frick%20Lab/ICU.html I know it's been translated into other languages, if needed.
Others have mentioned the SDQ and its shortcomings. I tend to like the Behavior Assessment Schedule for Children since it has adaptive scales along with problematic behaviour. But it's not free to use -- it's from Pearson.
Hi, i think this paper contains some useful information. Hope this helps.
Regards
Luca
Thanks Luca. Unfortunately it seem that the paper's information (attachment) is not available.
Dear Juan,
you mean the documenti is not available in full-text?
If so, please let me know. I can send a copy.
Luca
Unfortunately I can't see the information about the paper in your post. Maybe it is a problem with my browser.
Ah, i see. I attach here the papers i intended to mention.
I hope you receive them, now.
Regards
Luca
the antisocial behaviour measures from Smith and McVie (2003) from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and crime survey
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