The Children's Action Tendency Scale (CATS) is designed to ascertain how a youth will tend to
behave in conflict situations. Although the CATS has favorable psychometric properties, it was
developed with an Anglo sample. We evaluated the CATS with a sample of Latino youth and
obtained similarly positive findings with respect to the instrument's reliability and validity,
suggesting that it may be usefully employed in social work practice with Latino sixth and seventh
graders.
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