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Behavior Modification
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Social Calibration of the SSIT

Evaluating Social Validity

Jan L. Wallander

University of Southern California

James P. Curran

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Providence

Patricia E. Myers

State University of New York at Albany

Social validation of qualitative ratings of clinical change is typically demonstrated with a subjective evaluation method. Social calibration, a method of comparing laboratory measures to community standards with respect to a particular target behavior, was proposed as a more cost-effective alternative. The community standard is operationalized by the ratings of the target behavior from representatives of the community at large. This procedure was used with the Simulated Social Interaction Test (SSIT), a role-play test of social skills. The ratings of the trained criterion judges typically used with this instrument were compared separately to those of 50 community representatives and to those of 20 naive assistants. Results indicated that the SSIT was socially calibrated for measurement of psychiatric patients' overall social skills (but not anxiety) and bogus patients' situation-specific as well as overall social skills and anxiety. The general utility of the social calibration procedure was discussed.

Behavior Modification, Vol. 7, No. 3, 423-445 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/01454455830073008
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