Construction of a social skills questionnaire for the academic context (CHS-A)

Abstract

An online questionnaire of social skills for an academic context was created for secondary public-school students. Two studies were carried out. In the first (583 participants) a questionnaire was constructed based on a structure proposed by Del-Prette, Del-Prette and Mendes (1998), and its reliability and validity based on content, structure and external criteria were assessed. In the second study, the stability of the resulting structure was tested and its reliability was estimated. It was obtained a questionnaire with adequate psychometric properties for descriptive uses, with a structure of three factors: Assertiveness, Conversation and Self-regulation. In the light of these results, the dimensionality of social skills is discussed.