About the Measure
| Domains | Social and Emotional Competence |
| Key stages | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
| Subscales | AGG (argues, trouble at school, fights); POP (popular with boys, popular with girls, lots of friends); ACA (spelling, maths) |
| Description | It is a method for assessing the social development of children and adolescents through ratings by adults. |
| Example | Gets into fights |
| Link | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/000579679500004H |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 18 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Multiple |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 2 |
| Age | 9-18 |
| Cost single purchase | Available in jou |
| Cost per child | Available in jou |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | .67-.84 |
| Test retest | 3 weeks, r= [.69,.91]; 1 year r= [.27,.52] |
| Inter-rater reliability | r= [.80,.88] |
| EFA | 4-factor orthogo |
| CFA | 3-factor model Chi-square(17)= 13.83 p =.67 GFI = 0.98 |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Not reported |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not Applicable (NA) |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Cairns, R. B., Leung, M.-C., Gest, S. D., & Cairns, B. D. (1995). A brief method for assessing social development: Structure, reliability, stability, and developmental validity of the Interpersonal Competence Scale. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 33(6), 725–736. doi:10.1016/0005-7967(95)00004-h |