About the Measure
| Domains | Emotional Intelligence (mixed and trait), Mental health and wellbeing, Social and Emotional Competence |
| Key stages | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 |
| Subscales | Social rules; Likeability; Social ingenuousness |
| Description | The Children's Self-Report Social Skills Scale (CS4), was developed to measure children's perspectives on their own social skills. |
| Example | Others ask me to play |
| Link | https://search.proquest.com/docview/195607489?pq-origsite=gscholar |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 21 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 9-12 |
| Cost single purchase | Available in jou |
| Cost per child | Available in jou |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | .84-.90 |
| Test retest | 10-14 days, r= .74 |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | 3-factor oblique |
| CFA | Not reported |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Significant correlations between CS4 subscales and peer nominations, r= [-.26,.30] |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Danielson, C. K., & Phelps, C. R. (2003). The assessment of children's social skills through self-report: A potential screening instrument for classroom use. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 35(4), 218-229. |