Table 1.

Summary of Measures

Measure	Source	Reporter	Scales Used	Validity	Reliability	Scale
Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction Questionnaire (LSDQ)	Asher, Hymel, & Renshaw, 1984	Child	Full 16 item	Convergence with teacher reported peer problems (Cassidy & Asher, 1992)	α=. 80	1 (Not true about you) to 3 (True about you)
Weight-Related Teasing subscale of the Perception of Peer Teasing Survey (POTS)	Thompson, Cattarin, Fowler, & Fisher, 1995	Child	Full 4 item	Predictive of body image (Thompson et al., 1995)	α=. 79	1 (Never) to 3 (Very often
Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance (PCSA)	Harter & Pike, 1984	Child	Perceived Peer Acceptance, 6 items	Convergence with actual performance (Harter & Pike, 1984)	α=. 79	1 (Most negative) to 4 (Most positive)
Sociometric Nominations	Coie, Dodge, & Coppotelli 1982	Peer	Social Preference, Social Impact, & Social Descriptors	Prediction of later peer status (McKown, Gumbiner, & Johnson, 2011)	NA	NA
Perceived Peer Status	Andrade, Waschbusch, King, Thurston, McNutt, & Terrio, 2005	Teacher	3 ratings: Well-liked, disliked, teased	Convergence with peer ratings (Andrade et al., 2005)	NA	NA
Behavior Assessment System for Children, 2nd edition (BASC-2)	Reynolds & Kamphaus, 1992	Teacher	Child Withdrawal (8 items), Child Somatization (9 items), & Child Depression (11 items)	Convergence with similar measures (Reynolds & Kamphaus, 2004).	α=. 82 α=. 88 α=. 83	1 (Never) to 4 (Almost Always)
Modified Child Depression Inventory (M-CDI)	Modified from Kovacs, 1985	Child	4 items	Good model fit statistics of CFA	α=. 62	1 (No, not true of you); 2 (Sometimes this is true and sometimes not); 3 (Yes, it is true for you)

Note. Reported reliability coefficients are calculated for the current sample.