Development of the social problem solving measure of adolescents’ competences in dealing with interpersonal problems

The SPST-A was structured into five subscales so as to assess an adolescent’s ability to recognize an effective solution among a variety of responses and his/her performance quality of various dimensions (both constructive and dysfunctional) of social problem solving. The SPST-B was divided into two scales to assess overall problem-solving abilities: Problem affect-cognitions (orientation) and problem-solving actions (strategies or skills).