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The Effects of Social Skills Training and Peer Involvement on the Social Adjustment of Preadolescents.

Karen L. Bierman, +1 more
- 01 Feb 1984 - 
- Vol. 55, Iss: 1, pp 151-162
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This article examined the effects of social skills training and peer involvement on the peer acceptance of disliked preadolescents and found that conversational skills training promoted skill acquisition and increased skillful social interaction.
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This study examined the effects of social skills training and peer involvement on the peer acceptance of disliked preadolescents. 56 fifth- and sixth-grade children were identified as unaccepted by their peers and deficient in conversational skills. These children were then randomly assigned to 1 of 4 treatment conditions: (1) conversational skills training (individual coaching), (2) peer involvement under superordinate goals (group experience), (3) conversational skills training combined with peer involvement (group experience with coaching), and (4) a no-treatment control. Differential treatment effects were observed at both a posttreatment and follow-up assessment. As predicted, conversational skills training promoted skill acquisition and increased skillful social interaction. Peer involvement increased peer acceptance and children's self-perceptions of their social efficacy. The results were interpreted in terms of a developmentally based multidimensional model of social competence.

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The Perceived Competence Scale for Children.

Susan Harter
- 01 Feb 1982 - 
TL;DR: The Perceived Competence Scale for Children as mentioned in this paper is a self-report instrument for assessing a child's sense of competence across different domains, instead of viewing perceived competence as a unitary construct.
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