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Review of Self Rating Devices in Social Skills Assessment, and the Preliminary Investigation of a New Scale (S.O.C.S.I.T.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Peter Tyler  and
Paddy Tapsfield
Peter Tyler
Affiliation:
Senior Clinical Psychologist, Mersey Regional Alcohol and Drug Dependence Unit Senior Psychologist, Science 3 (R.A.F.), London
Paddy Tapsfield
Affiliation:
Senior Clinical Psychologist, Mersey Regional Alcohol and Drug Dependence Unit Senior Psychologist, Science 3 (R.A.F.), London
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Self report instruments for assessing social competence are briefly reviewed. The amount of assistance available from the literature to those wishing to apply the scales psychometrically seems scarce, and construct infrastructure of many such scales is limited and insufficiently explicit. A new inventory was investigated, using three male samples (controls = 100; alcohol abusers = 160; other psychiatric = 58) from an Armed Services population. Results indicate an underlying factorial framework which comprises five separate scales, and data are presented which indicate the scale's potential usefulness in such ways as identifying candidates for social competence training, and for inter-group analyses of social competence.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 223 - 236
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1984

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