Reliability of seven measures of social intelligence in a sample of adolescents with mental retardation

Abstract

This study evaluates the reliability of seven measures, selected to assess the social-cognitive variables hypothesized by Greenspan to define social intelligence. Responses from 75, 30 and 20 adolescents with mental retardation were used to assess each test's internal, interrater, and test-retest reliabilities, respectively. Interrater reliability coefficients were high to very high (.76 to .98), internal reliabilities were moderate to very high (.66 to .90), and test-retest reliabilities were moderate to high (.54 to .74). Internal and test-retest reliability coefficients compared favourably with those reported for the subtests of the Revised Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children.