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Social skills and self-esteem
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This paper examined the interrelations among a multidimensional self-report measure of social skills/competence, the Social Skills Inventory, and measures of self-esteem, social anxiety, locus of control, loneliness, and well-being.About:
This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 1990-01-01. It has received 136 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Loneliness & Social anxiety.read more
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Preference for Online Social Interaction A Theory of Problematic Internet Use and Psychosocial Well-Being
TL;DR: The results support the current hypothesis that that individuals’ preference for online, rather than face-to-face, social interaction plays an important role in the development of negative consequences associated with problematic Internet use.
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Handbook of Communication and Social Interaction Skills
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model for the acquisition of interpersonal communication skills in the context of conversation and interaction, including nonverbal communication skills and nonverbal verbal communication skills.
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Adult Attachment, Social Self-Efficacy, Self-Disclosure, Loneliness, and Subsequent Depression for Freshman College Students: A Longitudinal Study
TL;DR: The authors examined whether social self-efficacy and self-disclosure serve as mediators between attachment and feelings of loneliness and subsequent depression, and found that social selfefficacy mediated the association between attachment anxiety and feeling of loneliness, whereas selfdisclosure mediated the relationship between attachment avoidance and feelings with feelings of depression.
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A Social Skill Account of Problematic Internet Use
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrated research on social skill and self-presentation into the recently introduced cognitive-behavioral theory of generalized problematic Internet use, which predicted that individuals who lack selfpresentational skill are especially likely to prefer online social interaction over face-to-face communication.
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Social skills deficits associated with depression.
TL;DR: The empirical evidence of impaired social skills associated with depression is reviewed, followed by evidence from self-report, observer-rating, and behavioral assessments of depressed people's social skills.
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Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.
TL;DR: An integrative theoretical framework to explain and to predict psychological changes achieved by different modes of treatment is presented and findings are reported from microanalyses of enactive, vicarious, and emotive mode of treatment that support the hypothesized relationship between perceived self-efficacy and behavioral changes.
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Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of reward or reinforcement on preceding behavior depend in part on whether the person perceives the reward as contingent on his own behavior or independent of it, and individuals may also differ in generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
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Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change☆☆☆
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an integrative theoretical framework to explain and predict psychological changes achieved by different modes of treatment, including enactive, vicarious, exhortative, and emotive sources.
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Subjective Well-Being
TL;DR: The literature on subjective well-being (SWB), including happiness, life satisfaction, and positive affect, is reviewed in three areas: measurement, causal factors, and theory.
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Subjective Well-being
TL;DR: The literature on subjective well-being (SWB), including happiness, life satisfaction, and positive affect, is reviewed in this article in three areas: measurement, causal factors, and theory.