Trained Observers’ Ratings of Adolescents’ Social Anxiety and Social Skills within Controlled, Cross-Contextual Social Interactions with Unfamiliar Peer Confederates

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara E. Glenn ◽  
Lauren M. Keeley ◽  
Sebastian Szollos ◽  
Hide Okuno ◽  
Xuechun Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Trained Observers

Adolescent Safety Behaviors and Social Anxiety: Links to Psychosocial Impairments and Functioning with Unfamiliar Peer Confederates

2021 ◽  
pp. 014544552110540
Author(s):  
Hide Okuno ◽  
Taylor Rezeppa ◽  
Tabitha Raskin ◽  
Andres De Los Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Socially Anxious ◽  
Research Personnel ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Social Skills Deficits ◽  
Multiple Domains

Socially anxious adolescents often endure anxiety-provoking situations using safety behaviors: strategies for minimizing in-the-moment distress (e.g., avoiding eye contact, rehearsing statements before entering a conversation). Studies linking safety behaviors to impaired functioning have largely focused on adults. In a sample of one hundred thirty-four 14 to 15 year-old adolescents, we tested whether levels of safety behaviors among socially anxious adolescents relate to multiple domains of impaired functioning. Adolescents, parents, and research personnel completed survey measures of safety behaviors and social anxiety, adolescents and parents reported about adolescents’ evaluative fears and psychosocial impairments, and adolescents participated in a set of tasks designed to simulate social interactions with same-age, unfamiliar peers. Relative to other adolescents in the sample, adolescents high on both safety behaviors and social anxiety displayed greater psychosocial impairments, evaluative fears, and observed social skills deficits within social interactions. These findings have important implications for assessing and treating adolescent social anxiety.

Behavioral Assessment of Social Interactions in Natural Settings

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Santoyo
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Behavioral Assessment ◽  
Behavioral Observation ◽  
Social Responsiveness ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Social Effectiveness ◽  
Natural Settings

The present paper deals with behavioral assessment of social interaction in natural settings. The design of observational systems that allow the identification of the direction, contents, quality and social agents involved in a social interchange is an aim of social interaction assessment and research. In the first part a description of a system of behavioral observation of social interaction is presented. This system permits the identification of the above mentioned aspects. Secondly a strategy for the behavioral assessment of social skills is described. This strategy is based on the consequences and effects of social interaction, and it is supported by three basic processes: social effectiveness, social responsiveness and reciprocity.

scholarly journals Relationship between Social Skills and Happiness: Differences by Gender

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 7929
Author(s):  
Carlos Salavera ◽  
Pablo Usán
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Subjective Happiness ◽  
School Students ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Subjective Happiness Scale ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the relationship between social skills and happiness in 1st-year Teaching School students, as well as possible gender differences. The sample comprised 243 Teaching School students (Primary Education) in Zaragoza, including 110 men (45.27%) and 133 women (54.73%), aged 18–25 (average age 20.23 years; s.d. = 1.586). In order to analyse the relationship between social skills and subjective happiness, the Scale of Social Skills and Subjective Happiness Scale were used. While men scored higher in all social skills-related factors, women scored higher in all factors related to happiness. The study shows that factors such as self-expression in social settings and the ability to say no and cut off social interactions have a direct and significant effect on happiness among men, while self-expression in social settings and the ability to express anger led to a higher perception of happiness among women. Similarly, situations such as asking for and defending rights have an indirect and significant effect in men, reducing their levels of happiness. In the case of women, no social skills factors were found that led to lower happiness. It may be concluded that significant gender differences exist, although broader and lateral studies are needed in order to examine the relationship between gender identities, social skills and subjective happiness more in depth, and thus, understand the effect of these constructs in the development of personality.

scholarly journals The Influence of Rejection Hypersensitivity and Social Skills on Social Anxiety Symptoms

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Misako Nakamura ◽  
Risa Ito ◽  
Hideki Sato ◽  
Shunsuke Koseki ◽  
Shin-ichi Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms

Social Anxiety in Relation to Self-Control Depletion Following Social Interactions

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 747-773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ginette C. Blackhart ◽  
Jessica Williamson ◽  
Lyndsay Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Self Control
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