Reliability of seven measures of social intelligence in a sample of adolescents with mental retardation

Assessing intelligence in a cultural context.

“…"While the specifics vary from culture to culture, all people everywhere deem warm connections with others to be the core feature of 'optimal human existence'" (Goleman, 2006, p. 312) Several domains of assessment have evolved to address the various facets of social intelligence. These domains include social insight, social judgment, social sensitivity, and social communication (e.g., social problem solving; Mathias & Nettelbeck, 1992). Tasks used to assess these areas include role taking, interviews, video dilemmas, cartoons, tape recordings, photographs, and drawings.…”

Environmental postmodernism and rehabilitation of the borderline of mental retardation

“…With regard to the concept of mild mental retardation, the weak link does indeed, as MacMillan and colleagues have noted, appear to be in the area of adaptive behavior assessment, where there appears to be a strong consensus that improved appraisal of social behavior will contribute to enhanced utility and better, legitimate, differential classi®cation processes. Research and development activities to address the incorporation of social adaptation in assessment protocols are re¯ected in Greenspan's work (Greenspan & Gran®eld, 1992;Greenspan & McGrew, 1996;Mathias & Nettelbeck, 1992a), incorporating social intelligence and emotional competence as assessment dimensions, and by research on the validity of measures of social intelligence with adolescents with mental retardation, although not restricted to those with mild mental retardation (Mathias & Nettelbeck, 1992b).…”