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The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale in a Sample of Normal French Children: a Research Note
Author(s) -
Fombonne Eric,
Achard Sophie
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb01108.x
Subject(s) - vineland adaptive behavior scale , psychology , normative , adaptive behavior , developmental psychology , sample (material) , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , philosophy , chemistry , physics , epistemology , chromatography , quantum mechanics
The Vineland Adaptive Behavior scale (survey form) was used in a sample of 151 normal children under age 18. Standardized mean scores of French children were comparable to those of the American normative sample. From the age of 6 onwards, French children scored consistently lower in the Daily Living Skills domain though the magnitude of this difference remained moderate While the overall findings support the cross‐cultural stability of the psychometric properties of this instrument, attention is drawn to potential problems in the use of the Vineland scales, with special reference to autistic samples