ABSTRACT The study investigates child social competence a three different measurement levels (overall level, factor level, and item level), in a sample of parents and children participating in interventions towards emerging or present child problem behaviours. Parents of 550 children aged 3–12 (71% boys) evaluated social competence using the Home and Community Social Behaviour Scales (HCSBS), which assess two aspects of the concept: peer relations and self-management/compliance. An additive index across all 32 items was made to examine how parents reported overall social competence across ages, whereas factor analysis was used to investigate their underlying latent structure. Network analysis was used to investigate how the social competence items connect and interact. Results showed that parents reported higher levels of overall social competence among the girls compared to the boys, but this difference vanished about age 12. Factor analyses showed that a bifactor-ESEM model obtained the best model fit to data, whereas the network analysis revealed differential clustering and strength centrality for the items. Implications of these results are discussed.

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什么是社交能力？反社会行为儿童概念调查

摘要 该研究调查了三个不同测量水平（总体水平、因素水平和项目水平）的儿童社交能力，样本中的父母和儿童参与了针对新出现或当前儿童问题行为的干预措施。550 名 3-12 岁儿童（71% 男孩）的父母使用家庭和社区社会行为量表 (HCSBS) 评估社交能力，该量表评估概念的两个方面：同伴关系和自我管理/依从性。对所有 32 项的附加指数进行了检查，以检查父母如何报告不同年龄段的整体社会能力，而因子分析则用于调查他们潜在的潜在结构。网络分析用于研究社交能力项目如何连接和交互。结果表明，与男孩相比，父母报告女孩的整体社会能力水平更高，但这种差异在 12 岁左右消失。因子分析表明，双因子-ESEM 模型获得了最适合数据的模型，而网络分析显示存在差异项的聚类和强度中心性。讨论了这些结果的含义。