Sewell Madison N, Yoon Hee J, Lechner Clemens M, Napolitano Christopher M, Rammstedt Beatrice, Roberts Brent W, Soto Christopher J
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany.
Assessment. 2025 Jun;32(4):501-520. doi: 10.1177/10731911241256434. Epub 2024 Jun 6.
Social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skills matter for individuals' well-being and success. The behavioral, emotional, and social skills inventory (BESSI) uses 192 items to assess 32 specific SEB skills across five broad skill domains. This research developed three short forms of the BESSI-192 and explored their measurement properties, predictive validity, and cross-cultural comparability. We found that BESSI-96, BESSI-45, and BESSI-20 largely captured the psychological content of the BESSI-192 measure, retained a robust multidimensional structure, and demonstrated adequate reliability. At the domain and facet level, the BESSI short forms showed patterns of associations with external criteria that were similar to the BESSI-192 and preserved most of the BESSI-192's predictive power. The BESSI short forms also demonstrated full or partial measurement invariance between the primarily U.S.-based and German adult samples. We conclude by discussing contexts in which the short forms may be useful for researchers and practitioners.
社交、情感和行为（SEB）技能对个人的幸福和成功至关重要。行为、情感和社交技能量表（BESSI）使用192个项目来评估五个广泛技能领域中的32种特定SEB技能。本研究开发了BESSI - 192的三种简短形式，并探讨了它们的测量属性、预测效度和跨文化可比性。我们发现，BESSI - 96、BESSI - 45和BESSI - 20在很大程度上捕捉了BESSI - 192测量的心理内容，保留了强大的多维结构，并表现出足够的可靠性。在领域和层面水平上，BESSI简短形式与外部标准的关联模式与BESSI - 192相似，并保留了BESSI - 192的大部分预测能力。BESSI简短形式在主要基于美国的成人样本和德国成人样本之间也表现出完全或部分测量不变性。我们通过讨论简短形式可能对研究人员和从业者有用的背景来得出结论。
