I have tried to access the following tools but have not been successful. Any suggestions or help is appreciated.
1. The Ohio Social Acceptance Scale
2. Adult Attachment Interview
3. Self-Perception Profile
4. Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance for Young Children
5. The Factoral Scale of Socialization
5. The Factorial Scale of Socialization
Dear Lara,
I think that Jacob Moreno's sociometric test is the most used to measure social acceptance. It is applied easily and give us useful information as for as social acceptance is concerned.
The term sociometric comes form sociometry. Its Latin etymology is socius, which means companion, and metrum, which means measure. Moreno defined sociometry as the inquiry into the evolution and organization of groups and the position of individuals within them." According to Moreno, sociometry is the science of group organization and it attacks the problem not from the outer structure of the group, the group surface, but from the inner structure.
Sociometric explorations reveal the hidden structures that give a group its form: the alliances, the subgroups, the hidden beliefs, the forbidden agendas, the ideological agreements, the ‘stars’ of the show.
Moreno developed sociometry as one of the newly developing social sciences. He states: "The chief methodological task of sociometry has been the revision of the experimental method so that it can be applied effectively to social phenomena." (Moreno, 2012:39).
The practice of the method had the focus on the outcomes established by the participants by making choices based on criteria, overt and energetic. Moreno hoped that individuals would be more spontaneous, and organisations and groups structures would become fresh, clear and lively.
One of Moreno's innovations in sociometry was the development of the sociogram, a systematic method for graphically representing individuals as points/nodes and the relationships between them as lines/arcs. Moreno, who wrote extensively of his thinking, applications and findings, also founded a journal entitled Sociometry.
If you performed a Google search, something I aslo did, you are goind to find how to apply the text and interpret its findings,
Kind regards,
Orlando
Dear Gribble
In my opinion,
U can use any standardized test having more than 0.7 reliability
Or
U can develop a five point social acceptance scale, find out the validity and reliability and implemented with your own.
Thank you to all who have answered my question. For the pilot study we did create our own measure with a .93 internal consistency and validity. We are just looking for something that has more of a empirically supported basis.
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