Reliability and Validity of Two Brief Screening Measures of Preschoolers’ Social–Emotional Competencies

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• 作者：Catrinel A. Ştefan ; Mircea Miclea
• 关键词：Screening ; Reliability ; Validity ; Emotional and social competencies ; Preschool ; Internalizing/Externalizing problems
• 刊名：School Mental Health
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：9
• 期：1
• 页码：44-65
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• 刊物主题：Child and School Psychology; Psychology, general; Clinical Psychology; Developmental Psychology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1866-2633
• 卷排序：9

文摘

The emotional competence screening and the social competence screening for parents and teachers were developed in Romania as brief, multiinformant, strength-focused assessment tools to identify children at risk of underdeveloped social–emotional competencies. The objective of the current study was to gather further reliability and validity evidence concerning the teacher and parent versions of the screeners. Findings provided evidence of high internal consistency, test–retest reliability (3-month interval), and moderate levels of cross-informant reliability. Principal axis factoring was employed for testing latent dimensions associated with the theoretical models underlying the scales’ development. Construct validity was also established using measures of children’s social–emotional competencies and internalizing/externalizing problems and yielded moderate-to-strong correlations across all forms of the screeners. Diagnostic accuracy was assessed relative to the clinical range scores from the internalizing/externalizing problem scales from Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment and yielded acceptable specificity and sensitivity indices. Receiver operating characteristic analyses and area under the curve values indicate that these measures have moderate-to-strong utility (AUCs ≥ .78) in detecting children at risk of internalizing and externalizing problems based on ratings of their social–emotional skills. These data support the notion that these instruments might prove potential candidates for school-wide screening practices.