title: The Children's Evaluation of Everyday Social Encounters Questionnaire: comprehensive assessment of children's social information processing and its relation to internalizing problems.
abstract: Two studies describe the development of a comprehensive, vignette-based measure of social information processing (SIP) particularly relevant for children with internalizing problems. Study 1 (N = 219 3rd-6th graders) describes the creation of the Children's Evaluation of Everyday Social Encounters Questionnaire (ChEESE-Q) and evidence for its reliability and validity, including internal structure and relation of SIP variables to depressive and anxious symptoms. Study 2 (N = 127 5th-6th graders) replicated the factor structure and validity evidence found in Study 1 and provided support for the reliability of alternate forms of the ChEESE-Q. Overall, results supported ChEESE-Q scores' moderate temporal stability and internal consistency in assessing SIP. Results also supported the presence of positive- and negative-valenced SIP patterns. Child internalizing symptoms were strongly related to a negative SIP style across both depression and anxiety, whereas only depressive symptoms were negatively associated with positive aspects of SIP.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. belldeb@missouri.edu
authors.forename: Debora J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Bell
authors.forename: Aaron M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Luebbe
authors.forename: Lance P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Swenson
authors.forename: Maureen A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Allwood
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012919:Social Behavior; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*