Examining the psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Social Aptitudes Scale in two clinical samples

BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the psychometric properties of the Social Aptitudes Scale (SAS). The study aims of the current paper were to examine the internal consistency and the validity of the Norwegian SAS. METHODS: Parents of children from a clinical neuropediatric sample (N = 257) and...

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Autores principales: Kaiser, Sabine, Mathiassen, Børge, Handegård, Bjørn Helge, Arnesen, Yngvild, Halvorsen, Marianne Berg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10401803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37537686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01258-4
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author Kaiser, Sabine
Mathiassen, Børge
Handegård, Bjørn Helge
Arnesen, Yngvild
Halvorsen, Marianne Berg
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Mathiassen, Børge
Handegård, Bjørn Helge
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Halvorsen, Marianne Berg
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description BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the psychometric properties of the Social Aptitudes Scale (SAS). The study aims of the current paper were to examine the internal consistency and the validity of the Norwegian SAS. METHODS: Parents of children from a clinical neuropediatric sample (N = 257) and from a clinical sample from child and adolescent’s mental health services (N = 804) filled in the SAS. RESULTS: Internal consistency for the SAS were good in both samples and correlations between the SAS and different scales were in the expected directions. The results from the Confirmatory Factor Analyses indicated poor model fit. CONCLUSIONS: Future validity studies should investigate whether SAS is suitable as a screening instrument for detecting autism spectrum disorder.
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spelling pubmed-104018032023-08-05 Examining the psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Social Aptitudes Scale in two clinical samples Kaiser, Sabine Mathiassen, Børge Handegård, Bjørn Helge Arnesen, Yngvild Halvorsen, Marianne Berg BMC Psychol Research BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the psychometric properties of the Social Aptitudes Scale (SAS). The study aims of the current paper were to examine the internal consistency and the validity of the Norwegian SAS. METHODS: Parents of children from a clinical neuropediatric sample (N = 257) and from a clinical sample from child and adolescent’s mental health services (N = 804) filled in the SAS. RESULTS: Internal consistency for the SAS were good in both samples and correlations between the SAS and different scales were in the expected directions. The results from the Confirmatory Factor Analyses indicated poor model fit. CONCLUSIONS: Future validity studies should investigate whether SAS is suitable as a screening instrument for detecting autism spectrum disorder. BioMed Central 2023-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10401803/ /pubmed/37537686 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01258-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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