Social skills of adolescents

Convergent validity between IHSA-Del-Prette and MESSY

Authors

  • Zilda Aparecida Pereir DEL PRETTE 1 Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Centro de Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Psicologi
  • Maycol TEODORO Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Psicologi
  • Almir DEL PRETTE Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Centro de Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Psicologia.

Keywords:

Adolescen, Psychometric, Social skils, Validity of tes

Abstract

This research investigates the evidence demonstrating the reliability and convergent validity between the Social Skills Inventory for Adolescents and the Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters in two groups: the first with 136 adolescents from a public school (89 females and 47 males, with ages ranging from 12 to 17 years, 13.98±1.24 years); the second with 24 adolescents from a socio-educational program (ages ranging from 13 to 17 years, 15.64±1.18 years). The results showed low and moderate correlations between some subscales of both instruments (Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters and Social Skills Inventory for Adolescents), evidencing convergent validity between the Social Skills Inventory for Adolescents scores and the “social skills/assertiveness” subscale of the Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters. Comparisons between the groups indicated that the second sample had less difficulty in Civility (Social Skills Inventory for Adolescents) than the first sample (public school adolescents)

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Published

2014-03-31

How to Cite

DEL PRETTE, . Z. A. P., TEODORO, . M., & DEL PRETTE, . A. (2014). Social skills of adolescents: Convergent validity between IHSA-Del-Prette and MESSY. Psychological Studies, 31(1). Retrieved from https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/8341

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INSTRUMENTS AND PROCESSES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT