Home Interview with Child
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Abstract
The Home Interview with Child (HIWC) has been administered
as part of the summer child interview during the first four years
of the Fast Track project. The interviewer shows the child a series
of eight drawings that depict two types of social situations and
reads a brief description of the situations. The pictures and descriptions
concern two types of social situations: 1) Ambiguous Minor Harm
situations where the respondent is asked to pretend he/she has been
bumped or hit with a ball and 2) Unsuccessful Peer Entry situations
ask the respondent to pretend he/she has approached a group, has
attempted to join it, and is either explicitly told he/she cannot
join the group, or is ignored by the children in the group.
The HIWC generates two open verbal responses about each of eight
situations. In total, there are eight responses where the child
interprets an offender's intentions and eight responses where the
child describes how he/she would behave in response to the offense.
The interviewer codes responses to the interpretation questions
into one of three categories: hostile, nonhostile, and don't know.
Responses to the eight behavior questions were coded into one of
six categories: don't know, do nothing, ask why/ask again, make
a command, threaten adult punishment or make a threat, or retaliate/be
aggressive.
Analysts should note that the distributions for the scales for
both the normative and the high-risk samples are fairly normal,
with small amounts of skewness. The same is true for each of the
individual items of the measure for both the normative and the high-risk
samples; their distributions are all fairly normal, with only small
amounts of skewness.
Keywords: Social Skills, Hostile Behavior, Peer Relationships,
Aggressive Behavior.
Administration History
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years administered.
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19 November 2002
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