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A psychometric evaluation of the Multidimensional Social Competence Scale (MSCS) for young adults

The current study contributes to previous work on measuring the social phenotype in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by validating a multidimensional test of social competence developed for use with individuals with and without ASD. The “Multidimensional Social Competence Scale” (MSCS) was previously...

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Autores principales: Trevisan, Dominic A., Tafreshi, Donna, Slaney, Kathleen L., Yager, Jodi, Iarocci, Grace
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6214554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30388171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206800
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author Trevisan, Dominic A.
Tafreshi, Donna
Slaney, Kathleen L.
Yager, Jodi
Iarocci, Grace
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Tafreshi, Donna
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description The current study contributes to previous work on measuring the social phenotype in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by validating a multidimensional test of social competence developed for use with individuals with and without ASD. The “Multidimensional Social Competence Scale” (MSCS) was previously validated as a parent-rating scale with youth 11–18 years with ASD without intellectual disability and typically developing adolescents of comparable age. The current study presents a validation of a self-report version of the MSCS in a non-clinical young adult population (N = 1178, males = 360, females = 817, age range = 17–25 years). The MSCS consists of seven domains that represent social competence: social motivation, social inferencing, demonstrating empathic concern, social knowledge, verbal conversation skills, nonverbal sending skills, and emotion regulation. These domains are theorized to be indicative of the higher-order construct of social competence. A second higher-order theorization of the MSCS structure posits that 3 of these factors are indicative of social responsiveness, and the remaining 4 factors are indicative of social understanding and emotion regulation. Our findings indicated support for each of the theorized multidimensional factor structures. Reliability, optimal scoring, convergent and discriminant validity of the measure, as well as implications for future research are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-62145542018-11-19 A psychometric evaluation of the Multidimensional Social Competence Scale (MSCS) for young adults Trevisan, Dominic A. Tafreshi, Donna Slaney, Kathleen L. Yager, Jodi Iarocci, Grace PLoS One Research Article The current study contributes to previous work on measuring the social phenotype in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by validating a multidimensional test of social competence developed for use with individuals with and without ASD. The “Multidimensional Social Competence Scale” (MSCS) was previously validated as a parent-rating scale with youth 11–18 years with ASD without intellectual disability and typically developing adolescents of comparable age. The current study presents a validation of a self-report version of the MSCS in a non-clinical young adult population (N = 1178, males = 360, females = 817, age range = 17–25 years). The MSCS consists of seven domains that represent social competence: social motivation, social inferencing, demonstrating empathic concern, social knowledge, verbal conversation skills, nonverbal sending skills, and emotion regulation. These domains are theorized to be indicative of the higher-order construct of social competence. A second higher-order theorization of the MSCS structure posits that 3 of these factors are indicative of social responsiveness, and the remaining 4 factors are indicative of social understanding and emotion regulation. Our findings indicated support for each of the theorized multidimensional factor structures. Reliability, optimal scoring, convergent and discriminant validity of the measure, as well as implications for future research are discussed. Public Library of Science 2018-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6214554/ /pubmed/30388171 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206800 Text en © 2018 Trevisan et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Yager, Jodi
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A psychometric evaluation of the Multidimensional Social Competence Scale (MSCS) for young adults
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title_short A psychometric evaluation of the Multidimensional Social Competence Scale (MSCS) for young adults
title_sort psychometric evaluation of the multidimensional social competence scale (mscs) for young adults
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6214554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30388171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206800
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