Abstract
The practice of assessing children’s emotional development is fast developing within the field of clinical psychology and family social work. The researcher in cooperation with colleagues has developed a measurement tool, the Emotional Development Scale (EDS), to assess the current emotional functioning level of 4–12-year-olds.
The research design is based on a fixed correlational design with quantitative data and statistical analyses. The main focus of the study is to investigate the reliability and validity of the EDS. A preliminary ad hoc sample (n=213) from Hogrefe Ltd. is correlated with the empirical data regarding concurrent and predictive validity. Subjects in the study were 36 children, aged 4–12 years, each along with a parent, who had been referred to a day-family-treatment centre. Included in the study were eight day-family-treatment centres located in various parts of Denmark.
The results indicate a strong agreement between raters, and a significant correlation was found in the test-retest analysis with a good internal consistency. In a comparison of age groups and referred/non-referred groups, significant differences were revealed.
The study suggests that the EDS offers a consistent measure of the emotional competencies and vulnerabilities of 4–12-year-olds and is suited for determining their emotional developmental age, competencies and difficulties.
The research design is based on a fixed correlational design with quantitative data and statistical analyses. The main focus of the study is to investigate the reliability and validity of the EDS. A preliminary ad hoc sample (n=213) from Hogrefe Ltd. is correlated with the empirical data regarding concurrent and predictive validity. Subjects in the study were 36 children, aged 4–12 years, each along with a parent, who had been referred to a day-family-treatment centre. Included in the study were eight day-family-treatment centres located in various parts of Denmark.
The results indicate a strong agreement between raters, and a significant correlation was found in the test-retest analysis with a good internal consistency. In a comparison of age groups and referred/non-referred groups, significant differences were revealed.
The study suggests that the EDS offers a consistent measure of the emotional competencies and vulnerabilities of 4–12-year-olds and is suited for determining their emotional developmental age, competencies and difficulties.
| Bidragets oversatte titel | Emotional Development Scales psykometriske egenskaber : En undersøgelse af reliabilitet og validitet herunder korrelationer med Marschak Interaction Method og Neuroaffective Mentalizing Interview |
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| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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| ISBN'er, elektronisk | 978-87-7210-238-2 |
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| Status | Udgivet - 2018 |
Bibliografisk note
PhD supervisor:Associate Prof. Stine Lindahl Jacobsen, Aalborg University
Assistant PhD supervisor:
Prof. Bo Møhl, Aalborg University