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I don't know if it helps, but I find trust often a very helpful concept for measuring related questions. It comprises ability, competence and benevolence (see Mayer & Davis, 1999). It has been developed for trust in supervisory in organizational settings but we have successfully used it in other settings as well. The title of Mayer's and Davis' paper is "The Effect of the Performance Appraisal System on Trust for Management: A Field Quasi-Experiment". I do not know if it has been used in neuro studies though.

Maybe this scale ?

http://www.srl.uic.edu/publist/conference/crownemarlowe.pdf

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Ralph Balez

Could you be interested in the NEO questionnaire to measure personality in the Big-Five model? I think, its five dimensions (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) can facilitate measuring success of social interactions.

I describe this and numerical measurement of Big-Five dimensions in section 4.1.2 of "Social interaction, globalization and computer-aided analysis". See http://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/UO:everything:CP71200107310001451 or https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281644865_Social_Interaction_Globalization_and_Computer-Aided_Analysis._A_Practical_Guide_to_Developing_Social_Simulation.

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You could show videos of adolescent interactions to study participants and have them rate the results. You would have to base these behaviors demonstrated in the video on theoretical concepts, which I am sure you have. I would think this sort of study would be more relevant to outcomes. 

I am intrigued by your comment on personality traits impacting ones accuracy in perception of social competence. The concept of self perceived social acceptability is mercurial at best! Thank you for posting your feedback, as I will look for related citations. 

This study by Erin Heery used Baron-Cohen's Autism-spectrum Quotient to assess self-reported social ability (in adults). In the paper, the authors claim that it well represents social perception as well as social behavior (p. 5). However, I don't know how well the scale is equipped for adolescents. Stil might be worth considering it, though...

http://pages.bangor.ac.uk/~pss407/Erin_pubs/Heerey_JEPgen_2012.pdf

http://www.fepa18.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Instrumento-de-evaluaci%C3%B3n-de-las-competencias-sociales-en-la-Adolescencia.pdf

This study coud you help 

This might be interesting to read (social functioning and neuro-imaging in youth):

https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/33102

As well as this study (measuring bullying and social functioning in children with autism):

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-009-0832-2#page-1

I think it is most common to use peer nominations or peer ratings to measure a child's social position in the peer group (at least in non-clinical samples), but I do not know whether this is an option in your study.

Thank you, Vera Esser! That is a really interesting idea!

Thank you, Ralph Balez! I have used the MLAMS in the past!

Thank you for your comments/suggestions about personality traits, Alexander Osherenko, John Flournoy, and Jane L. Nichols! This is a very interesting idea, and I am interested in learning more about how this has been used in previous research!

Thank you, Jane L. Nichols and Tessa A M Lansu for your suggestions of using videos and real world examples! My main study actually is building off of more realistic peer interactions!

Thank you, Marcel Riehle! I use the AQ in my research!

Thank you, Blanca Cavazos! This looks very interesting! Do you know if there is an English version of this measure?

Thank you, Tessa A M Lansu! I only have limited access to the first link. Do you know which measures were used in this dissertation that you might recommend that I also use?

Thank you, John Flournoy and Tessa A M Lansu for your suggestions of using peer ratings! I agree that peer nominations and reports may be the "gold standard". Unfortunately, this isnt an option for the current study, but thank you!

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I greatly appreciate everyone's feedback and thoughtful suggestions!

A lot of the suggested measures seem to tap into individuals' ABILITIES (CAN they do something) moreso than their USE/APPLICATION of these abilities (HOW do they use them)- which is more of my focus in this thread.

In my study, I already have measures for assessing perceived social competence, parent-reported social competence, and a task that looks at more real-world peer interactions.

My primary interest in this thread is to search for a measure of real world outcomes/real world applications and implications of impaired social skills/interpersonal interactions.

I have found a few measures that might tap into this construct (Social Competency Inventory, Revised Peer Experiences Questionnaire, Social Skills Improvement System-Revise), however I am more interested in how kids APPLY (or fail to apply/unsuccessfully apply) social skills in the real world and how this impacts their social interactions, friendships, and peer acceptance/rejection, moreso than I am interested in which social skills kids HAVE. Two measures that I recently found that might tap into this are the Friendship Questionnaire and Social Competence Questionnaire. (However, I agree that peer nominations/ratings would be great. Unfortunately, this isn't feasible to collect for the current study). Thank you and please feel free to post additional comments!

PS I apologize for my delayed reply! I was swamped with end-of-the-term obligations and deadlines!

You might be interested besides Questionnaires in computer-based approaches I describe in section 2.3 "Learning", section 2.5 "Sociolinguistics" and especially in section 2.9 "Medicine" of "Social interaction, globalization and computer-aided analysis" (s.a.).

It discusses game-based and other approaches from related work to improve social competence of children such as Martinez-Reyes and Hernández-Santana (2012), Tsai and Lin (2011), Alcorn et al. (2011), Kandroudi and Bratitsis (2010), Asams and Robinson (2011).

From varied questionnaires, it has been discovered that social competences of adolescents can be comprehensively measured through the use of Social adjustment scales. Try and get this, it will be highly useful.

Hi Bamidele Segun Donald Odeyemi- Thanks for the reply. Is there a specific measure you had in mind (name of measure and/or author or citation)?

The measure of academic achievement /competences in mathematics

You may find an ideas from our papers:

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