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| Social skills: Social skills in psychology are behaviors and strategies that individuals use to interact effectively with others. These skills include communication, empathy, problem-solving, and the ability to understand and manage emotions. Social skills facilitate positive interactions, help build relationships. See also Socialization, Social behavior, Communication, Learning, Social relations, Problem solving, Emotion, Social identity._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Developmental Psychology on Social Skills - Dictionary of Arguments
Corr I 181 Social Skills/social competence/developmental psychology/Rothbart: Early forms of what will later be called Extraversion or Surgency are present in the smiling and laughter and rapid approach of infants to a novel object by six months, and measures of approach tendencies and smiling and laughter at this early age predict children’s extraverted tendencies at seven years (Rothbart, Derryberry and Hershey 2000)(1). Throughout early development, children who are more extraverted also appear to express greater anger and frustration, and are more prone to externalizing disorders (Rothbart and Bates 2006(2); Rothbart and Posner 2006)(3). Lengua, Wolchik, Sandler and West (2000)(4) found that low positivity and high impulsivity in children, as well as high rejection and inconsistency in parenting, predicted conduct problems. children who are more sociable may attract warmth and responsiveness from adults, thereby protecting them from the effects of poor parenting (Werner 1985). Better social skills have also been shown for children whose temperament matched parental expectations and desires, who were more persistent, and whose parents were higher on warmth (Paterson and Sanson 1999)(5). When infants are four months of age, their distress and body movement to laboratory-presented stimulation predict later fear and behavioural inhibition. >Fear/developmental psychology, >Social learning, >Social behaviour, >Socialization, >Stages of development. 1. Rothbart, M. K., Derryberry, D. and Hershey, K. 2000. Stability of temperament in childhood: laboratory infant assessment to parent report at seven years, in V. J. Molfese and D. L. Molfese (eds.), Temperament and personality development across the life span, pp. 85–119. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum 2. Rothbart, M. K., and Bates, J. E. 2006. Temperament in children’s development, in W. Damon and R. Lerner (Series eds.) and N. Eisenberg (Vol. ed.), Handbook of child psychology, vol. III, Social, emotional, and personality development, 6th edn, pp. 99–166. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley 3. Rothbart, M. K. and Posner, M. I. 2006. Temperament, attention, and developmental psychopathology, in D. Cicchetti and D. Cohen eds., Developmental psychopathology, vol. II, Developmental neuroscience, 2nd edn, pp. 465–501. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley 4. Lengua, L. J., Wolchik, S. A., Sandler, I. N. and West, S. G. 2000. The additive and interactive effects of parenting and temperament in predicting adjustment problems of children of divorce, Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 29: 232–44 5. Paterson, G. and Sanson, A. 1999. The association of behavioural adjustment to temperament, parenting and family characteristics among 5-year-old children, Social Development 8: 293–309 Mary K. Rothbart, Brad E. Sheese and Elisabeth D. Conradt, “Childhood temperament” in: Corr, Ph. J. & Matthews, G. (eds.) 2009. The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Developmental Psychology Corr I Philip J. Corr Gerald Matthews The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology New York 2009 Corr II Philip J. Corr (Ed.) Personality and Individual Differences - Revisiting the classical studies Singapore, Washington DC, Melbourne 2018 |
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