McClain Maryellen Brunson, Golson Megan E, Haverkamp Cassity R, Harris Bryn, Ficklin Erica, Schwartz Sarah E, Wynn Camille J
Department of Counseling & Educational Psychology, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA.
School of Education & Human Development, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2025 Jan;55(1):1-8. doi: 10.1007/s10803-022-05840-4. Epub 2023 Jan 13.
Social communication and interaction (SC/I) skill quality may be influenced by cultural values, norms, and expectations. Because difficulties in SC/I is a core criterion for identifying autism and is a frequent construct of interest in autism research, a measure designed to capture cross-cultural differences in the perspectives of SC/I skills is warranted. To address this need we developed and validated the Social Communication and Interaction Perceptions Scale (SCIPS), a caregiver report measure for children ages 6-18 years, that measures both frequency and perceived importance of various SC/I skills. Results from 401 diverse caregiver participants showed that for both domains (i.e., Frequency and Importance) the SCIPS has good reliability (α = 0.88-0.95) and two factors that examine basic and advanced aspects of SC/I skills. Findings support the use of the SCIPS as a measure of caregiver perspectives of SC/I skills in clinical and research contexts.
社会沟通与互动（SC/I）技能质量可能会受到文化价值观、规范和期望的影响。由于SC/I方面的困难是识别自闭症的核心标准，且是自闭症研究中经常关注的一个构念，因此有必要设计一种测量方法来捕捉SC/I技能观点中的跨文化差异。为满足这一需求，我们开发并验证了社会沟通与互动感知量表（SCIPS），这是一种针对6至18岁儿童的照顾者报告测量工具，用于测量各种SC/I技能的频率和感知重要性。401名不同照顾者参与者的结果表明，在两个领域（即频率和重要性），SCIPS都具有良好的信度（α = 0.88 - 0.95），并且有两个因素用于考察SC/I技能的基本和高级方面。研究结果支持将SCIPS用作临床和研究环境中衡量照顾者对SC/I技能观点的一种测量工具。
