The Assessment of Children's Social Skills Through Self-Report: A Potential Screening Instrument for Classroom Use

Abstract

The Children's Self-Report Social Skills Scale (CS⁴), a 21-item instrument, was developed to measure children's perspectives on their own social skills. Test—retest reliability and internal consistency reliability of CS⁴ scores were. 74 and 96, respectively. Principal component analysis revealed 3 reliable components: Social Rules, Likeability, and Social-Ingenuousness.