Author
Faculty member, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shiraz University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of the preschool version of the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS) parents’ and teachers’ forms in a group of 304 preschool children (143 boys and 161 girls) aged 3 to 6.5 in Shiraz. Factor analysis followed by oblimin rotation led to factors comparable to the parents’ and teachers’ forms of Social Skills and Behaviour Problems subdomains reported by Gresham and Elliott (1990). The factor structure was not totally replicated for the teachers’ form Behaviour Problem subdomain because Hyperactivity did not emerge in this study while two factors, Internalizing and Externalizing behaviours, did. Reliability of the scale was satisfactory.
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