Children ages 9-18

Children ages 9-18

Measuring aspects such as self esteem, social skills, and social anxieties.

Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale: The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965) consists of 10 items quantifying participants' feelings about themselves on a 4-point scale (1=strongly agree; 4=strongly disagree). After taking into consideration the five reversed scored items, responses are totaled to form the summation score, ranging from 10 to 40, with the larger scores indicating higher self-esteem.

SDQ is a screening tool for emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents aged 2 to 17 years (Stone, Otten, Engels, Vermulst, & Janssens, 2010). SDQ includes 25 items across 5 subscales. Each item is rated on a 3-point scale with 0=not true, 1=somewhat true, and 2=certainly true. Responses are totaled to form the summation score, ranging from 0-50, with higher scores indicating more emotional and behavioral problems.

The SAS is designed to assess feelings of social anxiety (avoidance, fears, or worries) experienced by children and adolescents in the context of their peer relations (La Greca & Lopez, 1998; La Greca & Stone, 1993). The SAS has 18 items divided into three subscales. Each item is rated on a 5-point Likert scale according to how much each item characterizes the specific feeling indicated (1 = not at all, 5 = all the time). Items from each subscale are summed so that high scores reflect greater levels of social anxiety.

The SSIS is designed to measure various aspects of social skills in children and adolescents who are suspected of having significant social difficulties (Gresham & Elliott, 2008). The Social Skills domain has 46 items and consists of seven subscales. Items are rated on a 4-point Likert scale by indicating how true each social skill is (0 = not true, 3 = very true), with lower scores indicating poorer social skill.