Reynolds Adolescent Adjustment Screening Inventory (RAASI)
The Reynolds Adolescent Adjustment Screening Inventory (RAASI) is a psychological assessment tool designed to measure adjustment difficulties in adolescents. It measures three subscales (Anger Control Problems, Emotional Distress, and Positive Self) and can be used to identify clinical issues or screening purposes. The purpose of the RAASI was to provide a reliable and valid measure of adolescent adjustment difficulties grounded in a comprehensive knowledge of adolescence and assessment development.
It is a 32 items, brief screening measure of adjustment for use with adolescent’s ages 12 to 19 years. It provides an adjustment total score and scores on four factorially derived scales including Antisocial behavior (AB), Anger control problem (ACP), Emotional distress (ED), and Positive self (PS). Subjects are required to endorse response that best describes how they have been feeling in the past 6 months, on a 3 point scale, ranging from never or almost never (1) to nearly all the time (3). It includes six reverse scored items worded in positive manner, so that reversing the score represents greater maladjustment and to allow validity through item endorsement pattem.
Number of items on antisocial behavior and anger control problems consists of 8 items. Thus, half of items constitute RAASI adjustment total score are included on scales of internalizing problems and half represents problem that are externalizing in their symptom expression. Items of Positive self are worded in positive; these items are reversed scored, so that high scores on this scale are indicative of low sense of self esteem and limited social involvement.
The validity and reliability of the RAASI have been established through numerous studies. In terms of reliability, the RAASI has demonstrated high internal consistency with alpha coefficients ranging from 0.87 to 0.94 across subscales. The test-retest reliability is high with a correlation coefficient of 0.89.
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