title: Concurrent validity of the behavior development survey.
abstract: The Vineland Social Maturity Scale, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), the Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS), and the Behavior Development Survey, an abbreviated five-domain version of the ABS, were administered to a stratified random sample of 111 mentally retarded individuals. The network of correlations obtained among these measures indicated that the Behavior Development Survey is a concurrently valid method of assessing adaptive behavior and demonstrates a pattern of correlations with the Vineland and the PPVT similar to that demonstrated by the more extensive ABS.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D007360:Intelligence; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010553:Personality Development; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior