Scale of parent report of statement: How often your child is solitary, during the past month, for ages 3-12, as part of the NIH Toolbox Emotion Battery Social Withdrawal Parent Report Short Form

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Copyright 2006-2012 National Institutes of Health and Northwestern University. Essex MJ, Boyce WT, Goldstein LH, Armstrong JM, Kraemer HC, Kupfer DJ. The Confluence of Mental, Physical, Social, and Academic Difficulties in Middle Childhood. II: Developing the MacArthur Health and Behavior Questionnaire. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry. 2002;41(5):588-603. Jeff Armstrong, Department of Psychiatry, Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute and Clinics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 6001 Research Park Blvd, Madison WI, 537 9, jmarmstrong2@wisc.edu

The NIH Toolbox Social Withdrawal Survey, an analogue to the NIH Toolbox Loneliness Survey, is a parent-report measure for children ages 3-12. It is a 4-item fixed length survey that assesses how often a child avoids or withdraws from social activities with peers. Each item administered has a 5-point scale with options ranging from never to always. Higher scores are indicative a higher level of social withdrawal. For more information on scoring, refer to the NIH Toolbox Scoring and Interpretation Manual: http://www.nihtoolbox.org/WhatAndWhy/Scoring%20Manual/NIH%20Toolbox%20Scoring%20and%20Interpretation%20Manual%209-27 12.pdf

In the past month, please describe�How often your child is solitary.