<h2> German Version of the Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI-G) </h2>
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<h3> What is BESSI-G? </h3>
This project documents the development and validation of the German Version of the Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI-G).
BESSI-G is the German adaptation of BESSI, a novel inventory that measures 32 socio-emotional skill facets with 6 items each (i.e., 192 items in total). The English-language source version of BESSI is documented <a href="https://osf.io/4zgyr/"> here in a separate OSF project </a> (Soto et al., 2021).
The project is run by <a href="https://www.gesis.org/en/home">GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences</a>, <a href="https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties/faculty-of-economics-and-social-sciences/subjects/department-of-social-sciences/education-sciences-and-psychology/institute/"> Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology</a>, and the authors of the original English-language source version of BESSI (see "Contributors"): Clemens Lechner, Marion Spengler, Thomas Knopf, Beatrice Rammstedt, Ulrich Trautwein, Christopher Napolitano, Brent Roberts, and Christopher Soto.
<h3> Where do I find BESSI-G? </h3>
The validation study of BESSI-G is now published open access at <a href= "https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/10/3/63"> Journal of Intelligence</a>
Lechner, C. M., Knopf, T., Napolitano, C., Rammstedt, B., Roberts, B., Soto, C. J., & Spengler, M. (2022). The Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI): Psychometric properties of a German-language adaptation, temporal stabilities of the skills, and associations with personality and intelligence. Journal of Intelligence, 10(3), 6.; https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10030063
You also find BESSI-G here in the OSF archive.
<h3> Can I use BESSI-G? </h3>
You are free to use BESSI-G under a <b>CC BY NC</b> license. The most recent (published) version is v0.3.
Although the inventory (instructions, items, response scale) is final, the German labels for the 32 facets and 5 domains may still change in the future.
Should you decide to use BESSI-G v0.2...
- please cite the paper in the Journal of Intelligence
- we would appreciate if you share your data with us in fully anonymized form so we can use it to further improve BESSI-G - your data donation will be much appreciated!
For questions, please contact clemens.lechner@gesis.org.
