title: Reliability of seven measures of social intelligence in a sample of adolescents with mental retardation.
abstract: This study evaluates the reliability of seven measures, selected to assess the social-cognitive variables hypothesized by Greenspan to define social intelligence. Responses from 75, 30 and 20 adolescents with mental retardation were used to assess each test's internal, interrater, and test-retest reliabilities, respectively. Interrater reliability coefficients were high to very high (.76 to .98), internal reliabilities were moderate to very high (.66 to .90), and test-retest reliabilities were moderate to high (.54 to .74). Internal and test-retest reliability coefficients compared favourably with those reported for the subtests of the Revised Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide, South Australia.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Mathias
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nettelbeck
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology*; D000293:Adolescent; D001364:Awareness; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007360:Intelligence; D007361:Intelligence Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011340:Problem Solving; D011386:Projective Techniques / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment