Philipps University Marburg, Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Gutenbergstr. 18, 35037, Marburg, Germany.
Res Dev Disabil. 2021 Apr;111:103863. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2021.103863. Epub 2021 Feb 4.
Social support is crucial to healthy development, serving as an important protective factor.
This study is the first to evaluate the psychometric properties of the German version of the Child and Adolescent Social Support Scale (CASSS). We further investigated differences between children and adolescents with and without ADHD.
Our total sample of N = 525 consisted of clinical participants diagnosed with ADHD (28.8 %) and healthy controls (71.2 %). We investigated item properties, factorial validity and reliability of the CASSS and performed a group comparison between patients with ADHD and healthy controls.
Factor analyses confirmed a four-factor structure corresponding to different sources of social support. All scales showed very good internal consistency. Results revealed that patients with ADHD perceived less overall support compared to the healthy controls.
The German version of the CASSS is a reliable and valid instrument for the assessment of perceived social support in children and adolescents. As children with ADHD perceived less social support in comparison to healthy controls, the identification and promotion of social skills should be an integral part of the treatment of ADHD.
社会支持对健康发展至关重要，是一个重要的保护因素。
本研究首次评估了儿童和青少年社会支持量表（CASSS）的德文版的心理测量学特性。我们进一步研究了患有和不患有 ADHD 的儿童和青少年之间的差异。
我们的总样本 N=525 包括被诊断为 ADHD（28.8%）的临床参与者和健康对照组（71.2%）。我们研究了 CASSS 的项目特性、因子有效性和可靠性，并对 ADHD 患者和健康对照组进行了组间比较。
因素分析证实了与不同社会支持来源相对应的四因素结构。所有量表的内部一致性都非常好。结果表明，与健康对照组相比，ADHD 患者感知到的整体支持较少。
德文版的 CASSS 是一种可靠且有效的工具，可用于评估儿童和青少年的感知社会支持。由于 ADHD 儿童与健康对照组相比感知到的社会支持较少，因此识别和促进社交技能应该是 ADHD 治疗的一个组成部分。
