Reliability and validity study of the preschool social behavior scale - teacher form *

This study aims to examine the reliability and validity of the Preschool Behavior Scale - Teacher Form (PSBS-TF) originally developed by Crick, Casas and Mosher (1997). Data were collected through social behaviour assessment by 11 teachers of 228 preschoolers, 110 of whom are girls and 118 boys aged between 3 and 6 residing in Ankara. For validity issues, specifically for content validity the opinions of the experts were asked, for construct validity exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, face validity and significance of test scores between groups with common features methods were used. Internal consistency coefficient for each age group and each subscale of the form and test-retest reliability coefficients were measured to test the reliability of the scale. The findings on the reliability and validity study display features at the satisfactory level.