Good test-retest reliability for standard and advanced false-belief tasks across a wide range of abilities

Hughes, Claire, Adlam, Anna, Happé, Francesca, Jackson, Jan, Taylor, Alan and Caspi, Avshalom (2000) Good test-retest reliability for standard and advanced false-belief tasks across a wide range of abilities. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41 (4). pp. 483-490. ISSN 0021-9630

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Abstract

Although tests of young children's understanding of mind have had a remarkable impact upon developmental and clinical psychological research over the past 20 years, very little is known about their reliability. Indeed, the only existing study of test-retest reliability suggests unacceptably poor results for first-order false-belief tasks (Mayes, Klin, Tercyak, Cicchetti, & Cohen, 1996), although this may in part reflect the nonstandard (video-based) procedures adopted by these authors. The present study had four major aims. The first was to re-examine the reliability of false-belief tasks, using more standard (puppet and storybook) procedures. The second was to assess whether the test-retest reliability of false-belief task performance is equivalent for children of contrasting ability levels. The third aim was to explore whether adopting an aggregate approach improves the reliability with which children's early mental-state awareness can be measured. The fourth aim was to examine for the first time the test-retest reliability of children's performances on more advanced theory-of-mind tasks. Our results suggest that most standard and advanced false-belief tasks do in fact show good test-retest reliability and internal consistency, with very strong test-retest correlations between aggregate scores for children of all levels of ability.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	reproducibility of results,humans,awareness,mental recall,psychometrics,child, preschool,wechsler scales,concept formation,social perception,reality testing,female,male,aptitude,psychological tests
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	24 Jul 2013 13:11
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 04:28
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/43056
DOI:	10.1111/1469-7610.00633

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