The Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters(MESSY)and its Adaptation for Brazilian children and adolescents
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2005
- handle: 10670/1.08353p
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Revista Interamericana de Psicología/Interamerican Journal of Psychology
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Psicología adolescents social skills Children (Brazil)Sujets proches
Childhood Youngsters Pedology (Child study) Kids (Children)Citer ce document
Maycoln Leôni Martins Teodoro et al., « The Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters(MESSY)and its Adaptation for Brazilian children and adolescents », Interamerican Journal of Psychology, ID : 10670/1.08353p
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"The present study reports the psychometrics properties of the adaptation of the Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters (MESSY) to a Brazilian sample. The MESSY and the Family Identification Test (FIT) were completed by 382 children (215 females, 167 males) from urban middle-class areas and favelas (slams) of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Age rangedfrom 7 to 15 years (M=10.30; SD=2.24). Results from factor analysis yielded a four-factor model with good internal consistency. One-Way Anova analyzes described boys as having higher scores on Factor 1 than girls (Aggressiveness/Antisocial Behavior).Children from urban middle-class areas performed better on factor 2 (Social Skills/Assertiveness) than those from favelas. Socio-cultural implications of the results are discussed."