: Challenging Situations Task

About the measure

Subscales

Social functioning in: School performancePeer relationships; Family relationships; Home duties/self-care

Example

Taylor was building a very tall tower of blocks. Bobby knocked it down…What would you do if you were Taylor? (a) Build another t

Key Stage

Key Stage 1

Domains

Emotional Intelligence (mixed and trait), Social and Emotional Competence

Rating Psychometric

Rating Implementation

Implementation

No. of items

3

Format

Nominal

Respondent

Self

Scoring

Standardised

Age

3 – 6 year(s)

Cost single purchase

Free

Cost per child

Free

Psychometric

UK norms

No

Chronbach's alpha

13 of 16

Text retest

After 3 months, r= [.17,.36], p < 0.001

Inter-rater reliability

Not reported

EFA

Not reported

CFA

Not reported

Criterion validity

Not reported

Construct validity

Preschool Self-Regulation Assessment: Significant positive and negative relationships for different CST response choices e.g. happy, r= [.13,.25]; Emotion knowledge: Affect Knowledge Test: significant positive and negative relationships for different CST response choices e.g. happy, r= [.13,.35]

Predictive validity

Not reported

Responsiveness

Not reported

Floor/Ceiling

Not reported

References

Denham, S. A., Bassett, H. H., Way, E., Kalb, S., Warren-Khot, H., & Zinsser, K. (2014). How Would You Feel? What Would You Do?” Development and Underpinnings of Preschoolers’ Social Information Processing. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 28(2), 182 – 202. doi:10.1080/02568543.2014.883558