Anna Soldevila Benet

Nair Elizabeth Zárate Alva

Rodríguez Pérez, Sara

Sala Roca, Josefina

Urrea Monclús, Aida

Sanz Escutia, Clara

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Convergent Validity of the Test of Social-Emotional Skills Development in Young people (DCSE-J)Rodríguez Pérez, S.1, Urrea Monclús, A.1, Sanz Escutia, C.1 & Sala Roca, J.11 Faculty of Education (Autonomous University of Barcelona); Sara.Rodriguez@uab.cat / Aida.Urrea@uab.cat / Clara.Sanz@uab.cat/ Fina.Sala@uab.cat INTRODUCTIONIt has become evident the need to include emotionaleducation in the different educational settings.It has been demonstrated that social-emotional skillsinfluence the transition processes into adulthood ofyoung people in care (Sala-Roca, Villalba, Jariot andRodríguez, 2009).These skills also favour academic outcomes (Durlak,Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor and Schellinger, 2011), and thedevelopment of positive ties with friends and family(Lopes, Salovey and Straus, 2003).GENERAL DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVEIt is therefore necessary to have an instrument for the assessment of thelevel of social-emotional skills of young people in care in order to design socio-educational programs tailored to their needs. However, the psychometricinstruments developed so far present some difficulties:1) most of the tests are of self-report type and have limited predictive validity,2) most of the social-emotional skills tests have a high cost, hindering theiruse.Accordingly, DCSE-J Test (Social-Emotional Skills Development in YoungPeople Test) was developed (Sala, Filella, Oriol, Ros, Secanilla and Rodríguez,2015) to respond to this need. The internal structure and internal validity havebeen administered to a sample of 932 youths; and the temporal stability to asample of 167 youths.The aim of this study is to analyse the Convergent Validity of the DCSE-JMETHODOLOGYREFERENCESSala-Roca, J., Villalba, A., Jariot, M. & Rodríguez, M. (2009). Characteristics and sociolabour insertion of young people afterresidential foster. International Journal of Child & Family Welfare, 12(1), 22-34.Sala, J., Filella, G., Oriol, X., Ros, A., Secanilla, E. & Rodríguez, M. (2015). Test de Competències Socioemocionals. Diposit digitalUAB.CONCLUSIONSIn the preliminary analysis, the convergent validity seems to havenot been confirmed. Nevertheless, there has not been enough time togo deeply into the analysis and it’s necessary to do additionalstatistics. On the other hand, it is necessary to consider:1) The tests used to analyse the convergent validity were notsituational tests, like the DCSE-J.2) The target population of the DCSE-J were youth under 18 years,and the sample of the study was an average of 20.80 years (S.D.= 2.211).However, the feedback provided by participants shows that:1) It is a simple tool and it awakens the interest of the boys andgirls who answer it.2) It is an interesting tool for children’s care professionals and it couldbe used at no cost.PRELIMINARY RESULTSPreliminary analysis don’t show correlations between the scales.Convergent Validity was analysed by means of the Pearson correlationcoefficientTo conduct the convergent validity, two tests have been selected considering the DCSE-J components, their criteria of validity and reliability. Inparticular, these tests are:1) Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-24) by Salovey, Mayer, Goldman, Turvey and Palfai (1995), adapted to Castilian by Fernández-Berrocal,Extremera and Ramos, 2004.2) The scale of assertiveness of RATHUS (1973), adapted to Castilian by Carrasco, Clemente and Llavona (1984).DCSE-J includes two scales: emotional regulation and emotional understanding, confirmed by factorial analysis:1) Emotional Regulation2) Emotional UnderstandingThe initial sample was 245 students from the Faculty of Education Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona211 (67,0%) were girls, 32 (10,2%) were boys, 2 (0,6%) were others. The average age was 20.80 years (S.D. = 2.211).Emotional attentionEmotional clarityEmotional repairAssertivenessEmotional regulation .066 .113 .018 .026Emotionalunderstanding .041 .005 .070 --This Project has been funded by the Ministerio de Economia yCompetitividad and cofunded by FEDER funds, EDU2016-77284-R

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