Analysis of a Social Skills Inventory (IHS) Applied to a Sample of College Students

• Autor(a) principal: Del Prette, Zilda
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Del Prette, Almir, Mendes Barreto, Maria Cecilia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17328
• topic: Treino de habilidades sociais; Competência social; Universitários; Psicometria; Inventários de auto-relato; Social skill training; Social competence; College students; Psycometrics; Self-report inventories

The evaluation of social skills repertoire of college students plants conceptual/methodological and cultural/educacional questions that are on the basis of these paper's aims. It is reported some psychometric properties of a Social SkillsInventory, with 38 items, applied to 527 college students, female and male, from humanities, biological and mathematicalundergraduated courses. The major results have showed: (a) positive discrimination coefficients, ranging from 3,0 to 16,7; (b)positive correlational coefficients, with only two non significative and ten lower than 0,30; (c) acceptable reliabitility measuredby Cronbach's coefficient of 0,75; (d) factorial structure with five principal factors, identified by behavioral situationalterms, with alpha coefficients ranging from 0,74 to 0,96, wich explained 92,75 of total variance; (e) preliminary data ofreliability in a test-retest procedure. It is presented some summary measures of the factorial scores. Based on this data, it isargued for the inventory usefullness in the research and in the clinical evaluation.