Assessment
name: Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI)
Scale
overview: The Behavioral,
Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI) helps identify five groups of
skills associated with health, happiness and success.
Response
Type: Items are
rated on a scale of agreement from
Scales:
As of the
date of this writing, the researchers identified five skill categories also
called domains. There are 32 skills called facets linked to domains.
1. Self-management skills, used to pursue goals and complete tasks
2. Social engagement skills, used to actively communicate with other people
3. Cooperation skills, used to make and keep positive social relationships
4. Emotional resilience skills, used to regulate emotions and moods
5. Innovation skills, used to learn from new ideas and experiences
There are
also compound skills that combine skills from multiple domains.
There are several
versions of the BESSI, which yield various degrees of specificity.
The
BESSI-20 quickly assess skills at the domain level as does a slightly longer
BESSI 45.
Longer
forms provide more details. The 192 item version includes the full 32 skill facets.
Reliability
and Validity
See Soto et
al. (2022) for an extensive presentation of the psychometric properties of the
BESSI within different samples. The researchers present the results of factor
analyses and correlations of the domains and facets with the Big Five
Personality Traits. High levels of alpha values are also reported. Overall,
alpha values ranged from .80 to .94 as reported in Study 4.
Availability:
The BESSI
may be taken online at this link: http://www.sebskills.com/the-bessi.html
The BESSI
was written in American English. There is a German version with other
translations pending.
Permissions:
The BESSI
is free for non-commercial purposes as follows:
The BESSI
is freely available for non-commercial purposes, such as scientific research,
program evaluation, and personal use. You do not need to ask permission for
these uses. However, permission is required for any commercial use of the
BESSI. If you are interested in obtaining permission to use the BESSI for a
commercial purpose, then please contact Dr. Christopher Soto.
Reference
for the scale
Soto, C.
J., Napolitano, C. M., & Roberts, B. W. (2021). Taking skills seriously:
Toward an integrative model and agenda for social, emotional, and behavioral
skills. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30, 26-33.
Napolitano,
C. M., Sewell, M. N., Yoon, H. J., Soto, C. J., & Roberts, B. W. (2021).
Social, emotional, and behavioral skills: An integrative model of the skills
associated with success during adolescence and across the life span. Frontiers
in Education, 6, 679561.
BESSI
and wholistic assessment
The facets
within the BESSI domains relate to the domains of human functioning common to
psychological research and practice. For example, by referring to the colorful
BESSI chart, you can see by the domain names and sample skills how they fit
with five domains of the SCOPES model of human functioning if we omit the
physiological domain.
SELF,
COGNITION, OBSERVABLE BEHAVIOR, EMOTION, SOCIAL
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