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 |