Adolescent Stories
Adolescent Stories (CPPRG, 1999) captures the adolescent’s anticipated responses to and feelings about 6 hypothetical unfair or difficult social situations and yields scales capturing hostile attributions, benign attributions, feeling angry and feeling worried.
Abstract: The Adolescent Stories measure is a social-cognitive interview (CPPRG, 1999). It assesses the adolescent's hostile, or benign attributional tendencies, as well as brings them to express their feelings (angry, worried), how they want to be treated when presented with an unfair situation, and what response they would give to the person who put them in this unfair situation. The adolescents are presented with six hypothetical situations, where they could find themselves at a disadvantage, or been treated unfairly. They are then asked to rate how likely they would be to respond in a hostile, or benign manner (on a 5-point scale, from not at all likely to very likely), whether they would feel angry, or worried (on a 5-point scale, from not at all to very), which way they would like people to treat them (liked, respected) and finally, to choose between an aggressive and a competent response to the situation. Because of the way the interview is designed, conceptually summary scores were computed across stories. Items measure hostile attributions, benign attributions, angry feeling and worried feeling. Items also measure how much the respondent wants to be liked, or respected, and gives a competent or an aggressive solution to the problem he/she is presented with. Four summary scores for hostile attributions, benign attributions, feeling angry and feeling worried were computed by averaging the corresponding items across stories. Scores for percentages of wanting to be liked, wanting to be respected, competent responses and aggressive responses were computed across stories as well. It is recommended that analysts use the summary scores across stories described above. Caution should be observed with the percentage of aggressive responses as it is skewed towards low values.
Who Completed this Measure?: select one
Cohort 1 - Administrative History
- Year 09 | grade 8 | age 14
Cohort 2 - Administrative History
- Year 09 | grade 8 | age 14
Cohort 3 - Administrative History
- Year 09 | grade 8 | age 14
Technical Reports:
Raw Dataset Name: CyAP
Scored Dataset Name: ASTySCc
Keywords:
Anger, Attitudes, Attributions, Hostility, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Relationships, Worry
Is this Measure Available for Public Use?: Yes
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Measure Items and Scales:
| c9ap1 | How likely is it that this happened to you because the kid who yelled "Fire!" was being mean to you or was playing a joke specifically on you so you wouldn't get to talk to the girl/boy? |
| c9ap2 | How likely is it that this happened to you because of some other reason that does not involve the other kid being mean to you? |
| c9ap3 | How angry would you be if this happened? |
| c9ap4 | How worried would you be that you wouldn't be able to find the girl/boy if this happened? |
| c9ap5 | How would you want this situation to turn out in the end? You'd want the kid who yelled "Fire!": |
| c9ap6 | What would you do or say to the kid who yelled "Fire!" if this happened? |
| c9ap7 | How likely is it that the policeman questioned you because he is being mean to you or is thinking that you robbed the store? |
| c9ap8 | How likely is it that the policeman questioned you because he thought you could help out with important information about the robbery? |
| c9ap9 | How angry would you be if this happened? |
| c9ap10 | How worried would you be that you would be arrested or taken to the police station if this happened? |
| c9ap11 | How would you want this situation to turn out in the end? You'd want the policeman: |
| c9ap12 | What would you do or say to the policeman if this happened? |
| c9ap13 | How likely is it that the teacher said this to you because she doesn't trust you and was being mean to you? |
| c9ap14 | How likely is it that the teacher thought someone else had taken your homework and that in fact you had completed the assignment? |
| c9ap15 | How angry would you be if this happened? |
| c9ap16 | How worried would you be that you would have to do the assignment over if this happened? |
| c9ap17 | How would you want this situation to turn out in the end? You'd want the teacher: |
| c9ap18 | What would you do or say to the teacher if this happened? |
| c9ap19 | How likely is it that the other kid knocked over your books on purpose to be mean to you? |
| c9ap20 | How likely is it that the other kid did not see your books and knocked them over by accident? |
| c9ap21 | How angry would you be if this happened? |
| c9ap22 | How worried would you be that your stuff would be ruined if this happened? |
| c9ap23 | How would you want this situation to turn out in the end? You'd want the kid: |
| c9ap24 | What would you do if this happened? |
| c9ap25 | How likely is it that your parent believes that you are involved in the drug problem at school? |
| c9ap26 | How likely is it that your parent believes that you are not involved in this drug problem and just wants to talk with you about what's going on at school? |
| c9ap27 | How angry would you be if this happened? |
| c9ap28 | How worried would you be that your parent was going to get upset with you if this happened? |
| c9ap29 | How would you want this situation to turn out in the end? You'd want your parent: |
| c9ap30 | What would you do or say to your parent if this happened? |
| c9ap31 | How likely is it that the other kids failed to answer you because they don't like you and were being mean to you? |
| c9ap32 | How likely is it that the other kids did not hear you or did not answer for some other acceptable reason? |
| c9ap33 | How angry would you be if this happened? |
| c9ap34 | How embarrassed would you be if this happened? |
| c9ap35 | How would you want this situation to turn out in the end? You'd want the kids: |
| c9ap36 | What would you do or say to the other kids if this happened? |
| sitecode | Actual Sitecode Entered |
| adst9hostile | adolescent stories: hostile attributions summary score year 9 |
| adst9benign | adolescent stories: benign attributions summary score year 9 |
| adst9angry | adolescent stories: feeling angry summary score year 9 |
| adst9worry | adolescent stories: feeling worried summary score year 9 |
| c9aplike | c9aplike |
| c9aprespect | c9aprespect |
| adst9aggr | adolescent stories: percentage of aggressive response year 9 |
| adst9comp | adolescent stories: percentage of competent responses year 9 |