Applicability of the Social Skill Scale, KiSS-18 to Chinese Teenagers

シャカイテキ スキル ソクテイ シャクド KiSS-18 ノ チュウゴク ノ ワカモノ ヘノ テキヨウ

Mao, Xinhua

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ タイジン シャカイ シンリガク ケンキュウシツ

KiSS-18

中国人

尺度開発

文化比較

social skill

KiSS-18

Chinese

development of scale

comparison of culture

A lot of social skill scales were developed in the U.S. and in Japan. However, there were obtained few in China. Before developing an original social skill scale for the Chinese, we would examine whether the Japanese social skill scale named KiSS-18 can be suitable to Chinese teenagers or not because a lot of similarities exist between Japan and China. Factor analysis was done by using 741 students of senior high school in China, and it was found that the factor structure was different from the composition of the KiSS-18 scale in Japan. In spite of high reliability that we confirmed through the whole scale, those of subscales were not so high. Moreover, average score through the whole scale of the Chinese students is much higher than their Japanese partners. These results suggested that it is uncertain when apply a Japanese social skill scale to Chinese. To increase the validity and reliability, it is necessary to develop an original social skill scale based on Chinese culture and values in the future.