title: The social skills intake interview: reliability and convergent validity assessment.
abstract: Interview data on 77 hospitalized male psychiatric patients were compared to professional staffs' in vivo evaluations, trained judges' evaluations of video-taped role-plays, as well as patients' self-report evaluations of their social skill. The results on overall skill ratings showed good reliability between two senior research staff members who conducted the interviews (r = 0.66) and between the video judges (r = 0.92). While the convergent ratings of professionals corresponded significantly with the interview ratings, the self-report ratings did not. Agreement between raters and correspondence among rating sources are discussed in the context of the amount of structure in each observational setting.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D012381:Role Playing; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior