Social Skills and Birth Order

1989 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-217
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Riggio ◽  
Yass Sotoodeh

This study examined differences in bask dimensions of social skill among birth orders. 205 undergraduate students completed a questionnaire that asked about family sibling structure and family income along with a standardized, self-report measure of social skills/social competence, the Social Skills Inventory. Analyses indicated no significant birth-order effects on any of the social skills dimensions, even when controlling for factors of age spacing, subjects' sex, family income, and family size.

1982 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Lowe

Previous research has provided support for the validity of the Social Performance Survey Schedule, a 100-item self-report measure of social skill. However, the scale has separate positive (Part A) and negative (Part B) behavior subscales, the validity of which has not been adequately assessed. The present study examined the validity of the Part A subscale with psychiatric inpatients by comparing scores with an objective measure of social activity, judges' ratings of social skill, and several self-report measures. The results generally supported Part A's validity. The influence of social desirability on Part A scores was discussed and future directions for research were suggested.


1993 ◽  
Vol 162 (4) ◽  
pp. 498-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. G. Pryce ◽  
R. D. Griffiths ◽  
R. M. Gentry ◽  
I. C. T. Hughes ◽  
L. R. Montague ◽  
...  

Service response to problems in 20 clinical and social competence areas was assessed in 156 long-stay in-patients, using the Needs for Care Assessment (NFC). Although there were few unmet needs for treatment, over 200 instances of unmet needs for the assessment of social skills were found, and reasons for this are discussed, as is the importance of social-skills assessment in this group. In around a third of the sample most of the social-skill areas in the NFC were not applicable.


1979 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. R. Winefield

A brief self-report measure of social support was administered initially to a student population, and then to a sample of hospitalized depressed women. Comparison of the responses of the 32 patients with 35 student women of similar age showed no differences between the groups in number of cohabitants or of casual friends, or in faith in the value of talking over one's problems. Patients were more likely than controls to report having no or few confidants, nobody confiding in them, and little confidence in being liked by others. Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.


1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1115-1123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhan Banks ◽  
Andrew N. Kenner

This study compared the social skills of 30 Semiprofessional Actors, 30 undergraduate Drama Students and 30 Nonactors. The participants answered a questionnaire containing the Riggio Social Skills Inventory, the Rosenberg Self-esteem Inventory, and the Extraversion subscale from the Eysenck Personality Inventory. The participants also completed an individual standardised videotaped interview. 7 judges rated participants' videos as to social skill and attractiveness. The judges rated Semiprofessional Actors as more socially skilled than members of comparison groups, and Semiprofessional Actors considered themselves more socially skilled. Actors' higher ratings on social skill were not mediated by age, sex, or scores on self-esteem or Extraversion. There was also a strong correlation between the number of productions in which actors had participated and their judged social skill.


JMS SKIMS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-95
Author(s):  
Noorul Amin

Background: The present age is the age of stress. Everybody is disturbed due to one or the other reason irrespective of their age. However, adolescents are more prone to psychological and sociological disturbances.Objectives:To assess the psychosocial problems in adolescents.Methods: The study was conducted in selected schools of urban and rural areas taking 100 participants each for boys and girls using convenient sampling method. The tool used was youth self report. The data collected was analyzed using appropriate statistical methods.Results: The study revealed that 48.5% adolescents were well adjusted; 47% were having mild psychosocial problems; 4% had moderate psychosocial problems and 0.5% had severe psychosocial problems.Conclusion: Adolescents irrespective of their living places had varying degrees of psychosocial problems. JMS 2017; 20 (2):90-95


2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Amtorunajah Amtorunajah ◽  
Muhsinatun Siasah Masruri

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan keterampilan sosial siswa dalam pembelajaran IPS melalui outdoor activity sebagai metode pembelajaran. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas dengan subjek penelitian siswa kelas VIIA SMP Negeri 1 Kaligondang Kabupaten Purbalingga. Penelitian ini terfokus pada peningkatan keterampilan sosial siswa. Data peningkatan keterampilan sosial diperoleh melalui pengamatan, wawancara, dokumentasi, yang selanjutnya dianalisis untuk dibandingkan: (1) hasil pengamatan sebelum tindakan dan sesudah tindakan, dan (2) hasil pengamatan keterampilan sosial tiap siklus yang didukung oleh tanggapan berbagai pihak. Sebelum dilakukan tindakan, peneliti melakukan pengamatan keterampilan sosial dengan hasil rerata 2,79. Pada penerapan outdoor activitiy siklus I diperoleh skor rerata sebesar 3,12 (kategori cukup). Pada penerapan outdoor activity siklus II diperoleh skor rerata sebesar 3,69 (kategori baik). Pada penerapan outdoor activity siklus III mengalami peningkatan dengan skor rerata 4,16 (kategori baik). Berdasarkan hasil pengamatan keterampilan sosial siswa pada prasiklus, siklus I, siklus II, dan siklus III, dapat disimpulkan bahwa penerapan metode outdoor activity dalam pembelajaran IPS dapat meningkatkan keterampilan sosial pada siswa. Dengan demikian metode pembelajaran dengan outdoor activity layak diterapkan dalam pembelajaran IPS sebagai salah satu kegiatan pembelajaran, khususnya untuk meningkatkan keterampilan sosial siswa. Kata kunci: keterampilan sosial, outdoor activity, pembelajaran IPS SMP______________________________________________________________ IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SOCIAL SKILLS IN SOCIAL STUDIES LEARNING THROUGH OUTDOOR ACTIVITY IN SMP NEGERI 1 KALIGONDANG PURBLINGGA REGENCY Abstract This study aims to improve the social skills of students in social studies learning through outdoor activity as a learning method. This was a classrooms action research study involving grade VIIA students of SMP Negeri 1 Kaligondang Purbalingga regency. This study focused on improving the social skill. The data of improvement of social skills were collected through observation, interviews, documentation, which is then analyzed for comparison: (1) the result of observations before and after the actions, and (2) the result of observation of social skills of each cycle supported by responses from different  parties. Before the actions, the researchers conducted observations of social skills and the mean score was 2.79 (in the moderate category). Through the application of the outdoor activitiy in cycle I obtained mean score of 3.12 (in the moderate category). Through the application of the outdoor activity in cycle II obtained mean score of 3.69 (in the good category). Through the application of outdoor activity in cycle III, the student’ social skill improved, with a mean score of 4.16 (in the good category). Based on the result of the observations of students' social skills on precycle, cycle I, cycle II, and  cycle III, it can be concluded that the application of the learning method of outdoor activity in Social Studies can improve social skills in students. Thus the method of learning with outdoor activity feasible in learning social studies as one of the learning activities, in particular to improve the students’ social skills. Keywords: social skills, outdoor activity, social studies learning at junior high school.


2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Jamieson ◽  
Kaori Araki ◽  
Yong Chul Chung ◽  
Sun Yong Kwon ◽  
Lisa Riggioni ◽  
...  

Recently, a significant growth in immigrant populations has influenced the social, cultural, and political landscape of many local communities. Understanding such changes in U.S. and local demography are central to effective efforts toward reducing physical inactivity, and associated health risks and diseases. In part to document the ways that physical activity currently fits into particular women’s lives, and as critique of the essentialized notions of immigrant communities as deficient in their health standards, we set out to investigate just how physically active Latinas in local communities were. The research was guided by the following two questions: 1) What are the social conditions under which adolescent Latinas make choices about physical activity? 2) To what extent are adolescent Latinas involved in physical activity? Centering on these two questions we administered questionnaires that measured current physical activity involvement, and individual and family background factors. Survey data indicate that Latina physical activity scores increase when home and work related physical activity is included in a self-report measure.


2003 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas F. Skinner

Contrary to Sulloway's 1996 assertion that firstborns should score higher than laterborns on measures of dominance, the dominance scores for 76 firstborn undergraduate students (50 women, 26 men) did not differ significantly from the scores of 75 laterborn students (48 women, 27 men) on the 16PF dimension of Dominance vs Submissiveness (Factor E). Further research into possible differences in performance strategies between laterborns and firstborns in childhood vs adulthood is necessary to evaluate Sulloway's theory of ordinal position definitively.


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