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- Abstract
- METHOD
- Subjects
- The first high school sample included 87 students (40 males and 47 females) enrolled in a large suburban
- Research Instruments
- Adolescent Social Self-Efficacy Scale (S-EFF)
- Perceived Competence Scale
- Self-esteem Inventory
- Adjustment Scale for Sociometric Assessment of Secondary School Student
- Child Behavior Checklist
- Procedures
- RESULTS
- Descriptive Statistics - Adolescent Social Self-Efficacy Scale
- Reliability of the Adolescent Social Self-Efficacy Scale
- Internal consistency
- Test-retest reliability
- Construct Validity
- Correlations with self-concept
- Correlations with social adjustment ratings
- Social self-efficacy of emotionally disturbed adolescents
- DISCUSSION
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Abstract
Evaluations of self-efficacy in carrying out social tasks that underlie successful personal relations have been highlighted as an important component of social competence in childhood and adolescence. An examination of social self-efficacy in two samples of high school students and a sample of emotionally disturbed adolescents is reported. The Adolescent Social Self-Efficacy Scale, a 25-item scale which elicits self-ratings of behavioural effectiveness in problematic peer contexts, was developed. Scale homogeneity and test-retest reliability were evident in the samples tested. Validity of the social self-efficacy construct was demonstrated by correlations with indices of social self-concept and ratings of social adjustment. Clinical utility of the scale was also evident. Emotionally disturbed adolescents rated themselves more poorly than did their well-functioning peers. These findings support the conceptualization of social self-efficacy as a component of social competence and as a contributor to mental health.
L'évaluation de l'auto-efficacité dans la conduite de tâches sociales sous-jacentes à des relations personnelles efficaces est reconnue comme une composante importante de la compétence sociale chez l'enfant et l'adolescent. On rapporte une étude del'auto-efficacité sociale de deux échantillons d'étudiants du niveau secondaire et un échantillon d'étudiants troublés émotionnellement. On a développé 1′"Adolescent Social Self-Efficacy Scale," un questionnaire de 25 items qui mesure des auto-évaluations de 1'efficacité comportementale dans des contextes problématiques avec les pairs. L'homogénéité du questionnaire ainsi que la fidélité test-retest furent démontrées avec les échantillons étudiés. La validité de l'auto-efficacité sociale fut démontrée par des corrélations avec des indices de concept de soi social et d'ajustement social. L'utilité clinique de l'échelle était également évidente. Les adolescents troublés émotionnellement s'auto-évaluèrent de façon plus faible que leurs pairs "normaux. "Ces résultats soutiennent la conceptualisation de l'auto-efficacité sociale en...