Children’s Scale of Hostility and Aggression: Reactive/Proactive
The Children’s Scale of Hostility and Aggression: Reactive/Proactive (C-SHARP) is an instrument for measuring aggressive and hostile behavior in children with developmental disabilities. At the time of development, there were other scales for aggression, but none were appropriate for the type of in-depth measurement of aggression required by many studies in the developmental disabilities. The scale was initially derived through factor analysis, using a sample of 365 children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. The resulting factor structure, which uses only 48 of the 58 items, was confirmed in a separate study of 406 children with ASD and 238 children without ASD. This User’s Packet contains all relevant publications, as well as instructions for use and translation. Please pay special attention to the two memos regarding the new version and the publication errors, which are found on pages 5 and 6, respectively.
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Please contact Cristan Farmer (cristan.farmer@nih.gov) if you want permission to use the C-SHARP or have additional questions.
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