ERIC Number: EJ1373422
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1040-9289
EISSN: EISSN-1556-6935
Children's Social Understanding Scale-Short Form: Adaptation to Turkish Sample
Ekerim Akbulut, Müge; Etel, Evren; Tahiroglu, Deniz; Selçuk, Ayse Bilge
Early Education and Development, v34 n1 p329-347 2023
Research Findings: The Children's Social Understanding Scale (CSUS) assesses young children's theory of mind (ToM). The current study adapted the parent version of the CSUS-short form to Turkish and examined its utility, for the first time, as an assessment tool for teachers. The associations of parent and teacher reports of the CSUS-short form with classical behavioral assessments of ToM were investigated along with such known correlates of ToM as receptive language, executive functions (EF), and social competence. Two hundred and two children (M[subscript age] = 53.98 months), their parents and 169 teachers participated in the study at Time 1, and one year later at Time 2, 132 parents and 109 teachers completed the CSUS-short form again. Similar to the original version of the scale, both parent and teacher forms yielded one-factor structure, demonstrated high internal consistencies at both measurement points, and were positively correlated with each other across time. Parent and teacher forms were also concurrently and positively associated with behavioral ToM tasks, receptive language, EF, and social competence. Practice or Policy: These results pointed to the reliability and validity of the parent and teacher versions of the CSUS-short form as a multi-informant measure for Turkish preschoolers and lay the ground for cross-cultural comparison of children's ToM scores with the other cultural adaptions of the CSUS.
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Preschool Children, Parents, Preschool Teachers, Executive Function, Gender Differences, Behavior Rating Scales, Test Validity, Receptive Language, Interpersonal Competence, Age Differences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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