Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters.

MESSY

What it measures

Social skills and social-skill deficits in children/adolescents - factors typically including Appropriate Social Skills and Inappropriate Assertiveness/Impulsiveness

Length and format

62 (self-report and teacher-report forms). 4-5-pt frequency rating (informant/observer report)

Language versions

Many languages (Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, Greek, Brazilian-PT, etc.); widely adapted internationally for child social-skills assessment

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Matson, J. L., Rotatori, A. F., & Helsel, W. J. (1983). Development of a rating scale to measure social skills in children: the MESSY. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 21(4), 335-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967(83)90001-3

https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967(83