title: The Strategy and Attribution Questionnaire: Psychometric properties of a Lithuanian translation in an adolescent sample.
abstract: The present study provides a preliminary validation of the Lithuanian version of the Strategy and Attribution Questionnaire (SAQ, Nurmi, et al., 1995), a self-reported measure of social and cognitive behavioral strategies. An attempt to validate SAQ subscales was made by correlating them with the Youth Self-Report (Achenbach, 1991) and school grades. This was done with a sample of 14- to 17-year-old adolescents (N= 734). The results showed that although internal consistency reliabilities were good, they were lower when compared with the original version of SAQ. The SAQ subscales were moderately associated with various validity criteria, such as anxiety/depression, withdrawal, social problems and somatic complaints and school grades. Results also showed moderate correlations between similar strategic components across achievement and affiliative situations. The results provide preliminary evidence for concurrent validity of the Lithuanian version of SAQ.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Law University of Lithuania, Lithuania. laav@is.lt
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zukauskiene
authors.forename: Jolanta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sondaite
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D003469:Culture; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008097:Lithuania; D008297:Male; D011340:Problem Solving; D011581:Psychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires