About the Measure
Domains | Social and Emotional Competence |
Key stages | Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
Subscales | Prosocial behaviour; Asocial behaviour |
Description | An inventory to assess social competence in teenagers. |
Example | I hit other boys when they make me mad |
Link | http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED360337.pdf |
Psychometry | |
Implementation |
Implementation details
No. of items | 40 |
Format | Likert |
Respondent | Self |
Scoring | Standardised |
Time | 0 |
Age | 11-17 |
Cost single purchase | Free |
Cost per child | Free |
Psychometric details
UK norms | No |
Cronbach's α | .88 |
Test retest | 2 weeks, r= [.72,.90] |
Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
EFA | 2-factor solutio |
CFA | 2-factor model SRMR= .07 GFI= .88 AGFI= .86 |
Criterion validity | Not reported |
Construct validity | Not reported |
Concurrent validity | Adolescents who reported higher levels of prosocial behaviour scored higher in Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire extraversion, r= .12, and lower in Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire psychoticism, r= −.37 |
Predictive validity | Not reported |
Responsiveness | Not reported |
Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
References | Inderbitzen, H., & Garbin, C. (1992, November). An Investigation of the Construct Validity of the Teenage Inventory of Social Skills: A Convergent Multivariate Approach. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED360337.pdf Inglés, C. J., Hidalgo, M. D., Xavier Méndez, F., & Inderbitzen, H. M. (2003). The Teenage Inventory of Social Skills: Reliability and validity of the Spanish translation. Journal of Adolescence, 26(4), 505–510. doi:10.1016/s0140-1971(03)00032-0 |