Direct assessment of children's social-emotional comprehension

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1154-1166

  McKown, Clark ^a   Allen, Adelaide M ^a   Russo Ponsaran, Nicole M ^a   Johnson, Jason K ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Child assessment; Emotion recognition; Social problem solving; Social emotional learning; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PEER GROUP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EMOTIONAL COMPREHENSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; DYSLEXIA; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGY; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORY OF MIND;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; DYSLEXIA; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84890106054     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033435     Document Type: Article

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