Cross-Informant Agreement for Ratings for Social Skill and Problem Behavior Ratings: An Investigation of the Social Skills Improvement System-Rating Scales

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 157-166

  Gresham, Frank M ^a   Elliott, Stephen N ^b   Cook, Clayton R ^a   Vance, Michael J ^a   Kettler, Ryan ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergent validity; Discriminant validity; Social skills

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BULLYING; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYPERACTIVITY; INTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARENT; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL SKILLS IMPROVEMENT SYSTEM RATING SCALES; STUDENT; TEACHER; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 77950215240     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018124     Document Type: Article

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