About the Measure
Domains | Social and Emotional Competence |
Key stages | Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
Subscales | This is a unidimensional measure |
Description | The Measure of Adolescent Social Performance can be used to assess the social adjustment of adolescents in relevant social situations. |
Example | A friend of yours is a lot of fun and is always making you laugh. Some of your friends can't stand him. One of them says, Why do |
Link | Contact author at tcavell@uark.edu |
Psychometry | |
Implementation |
Implementation details
No. of items | 20 |
Format | Nominal |
Respondent | Self |
Scoring | Complex |
Time | 0 |
Age | 11-19 |
Cost single purchase | Available from a |
Cost per child | Available from a |
Psychometric details
UK norms | No |
Cronbach's α | .87 |
Test retest | After 2 week, r= .82 |
Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
EFA | 17 factors had e |
CFA | |
Criterion validity | Not reported |
Construct validity | r= .46 (Behavioural adjustment) |
Concurrent validity | Not reported |
Predictive validity | Not reported |
Responsiveness | |
Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
References | Cavell, T.A. & Kelley, M.L. (1992). The Measure of Adolescent Social Performance: Development and Initial Validation. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 21(2), 107-114. doi:10.1207/s15374424jccp2102_2 |