Citation

Pössel P, Häussler B. Z. Kinder Jugendpsychiatr Psychother. 2004; 32(1): 37-43.

Vernacular Title

Ubersetzungs- und Validierungsansatze der deutschen Version des "Teenage

Affiliation

Abteilung Klinische und Physiologische Psychologie, Universität Tübingen. patrick.poessel@uni-tuebingen.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Verlag Hans Huber)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

14992046

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: A lot of studies show the close connection between low social competence and psychological disturbances of adolescents. METHODS: To record the social behavior of adolescents among each other the "Teenage Inventory of Social Skills" (TISS) was translated into German and evaluated. RESULTS: The factorial created scales "positive behaviour", and "negative behaviour" show an internal constistuency of alpha = .86 and .85. The 13 to 18 days test-retest reliability amounts to r = .89 for both scales. While there is no substantial correlation between the scale "positive behaviour" and the syndrome scales of the "Youth Self-Report", the scale "negative behaviour" shows the expected correlations with the YSR scales "aggressive behaviour" and "dissocial behaviour". CONCLUSIONS: The "Teenage Inventory of Social Skills--German" (TISS-D) seems to be a self-rated, economical and reliable instrument for the recording of sympathy and antipathy generating behavior of adolescents.

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