Abstract
This study demonstrated the criterion-related validity of Social Skill Scale (SSS) with Interaction Rating Scale (IRS) by children with behavioral or environmental difficulties. SSS constructs 3 factors, "cooperation", "self-control" and "assertion", IRS does 5 subscales for child items, "Autonomy", "Responsiveness to caregiver", "Empathy", "Motor self regulation" and "Emotional self regulation", converged with 3 factors equal to SSS. Participants were 2-6 year old 121 children evaluated by both SSS and the child items of IRS. As expected, "cooperation" significantly correlated with "Responsiveness to caregiver" "Empathy", "self-control" with "Motor self regulation" "Emotional self regulation", and "assertion" with "Autonomy". The results showed that these 2 scales have broad utility by choosing different situation for child support.
