Title of article :
Farsi Version of Social Skills Rating System-Secondary Student Form: Cultural Adaptation, Reliability and Construct Validity
Author/Authors :
Eslami, Ahmad Ali Department of Health Education and Health Promotion - School of Health - Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan , Amidi Mazaheri, Maryam Department of Health Education and Health Promotion - School of Health - Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan , Mostafavi, Firoozeh Department of Health Education and Health Promotion - School of Health - Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan , Abbasi, Mohamad Hadi Department of Health Education and Health Promotion - School of Health - Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan , Noroozi, Ensieh Department of Health Education and Health Promotion - School of Health - Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan
Abstract :
Objective: Assessment of social skills is a necessary requirement to develop and evaluate the effectiveness
of cognitive and behavioral interventions. This paper reports the cultural adaptation and psychometric properties
of the Farsi version of the social skills rating system-secondary students form (SSRS-SS) questionnaire
(Gresham and Elliot, 1990), in a normative sample of secondary school students.
Methods: A two-phase design was used that phase 1 consisted of the linguistic adaptation and in phase 2,
using cross-sectional sample survey data, the construct validity and reliability of the Farsi version of the SSRSSS
were examined in a sample of 724 adolescents aged from 13 to 19 years.
Results: Content validity index was excellent, and the floor/ceiling effects were low. After deleting five of
the original SSRS-SS items, the findings gave support for the item convergent and divergent validity. Factor
analysis revealed four subscales. Results showed good internal consistency (0.89) and temporal stability (0.91)
for the total scale score.
Conclusion: Findings demonstrated support for the use of the 27-item Farsi version in the school setting.
Directions for future research regarding the applicability of the scale in other settings and populations of
adolescents are discussed.
Keywords :
Iranian Adolescent , Reliability , Social Skills Rating System-Secondary Students Form , Validity
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics
