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Peer Perceptions of Social Skills in Socially Anxious and Nonanxious Adolescents

Previous studies using adult observers are inconsistent with regard to social skills deficits in nonclinical socially anxious youth. The present study investigated whether same age peers perceive a lack of social skills in the socially anxious. Twenty high and 20 low socially anxious adolescents (13...

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Autores principales: Miers, Anne C., Blöte, Anke W., Westenberg, P. Michiel
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19680804
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-009-9345-x
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description Previous studies using adult observers are inconsistent with regard to social skills deficits in nonclinical socially anxious youth. The present study investigated whether same age peers perceive a lack of social skills in the socially anxious. Twenty high and 20 low socially anxious adolescents (13–17 years old) were recorded giving a 5-min speech. Unfamiliar peer observers (12–17 years old) viewed the speech samples and rated four social skills: speech content, facial expressions, posture and body movement, and way of speaking. Peer observers perceived high socially anxious adolescents as significantly poorer than low socially anxious adolescents on all four social skills. Moreover, for all skills except facial expressions, group differences could not be attributed to adolescents’ self-reported level of depression. We suggest that therapists take the perceptions of same age peers into account when assessing the social skills of socially anxious youth.
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spelling pubmed-28099442010-01-29 Peer Perceptions of Social Skills in Socially Anxious and Nonanxious Adolescents Miers, Anne C. Blöte, Anke W. Westenberg, P. Michiel J Abnorm Child Psychol Article Previous studies using adult observers are inconsistent with regard to social skills deficits in nonclinical socially anxious youth. The present study investigated whether same age peers perceive a lack of social skills in the socially anxious. Twenty high and 20 low socially anxious adolescents (13–17 years old) were recorded giving a 5-min speech. Unfamiliar peer observers (12–17 years old) viewed the speech samples and rated four social skills: speech content, facial expressions, posture and body movement, and way of speaking. Peer observers perceived high socially anxious adolescents as significantly poorer than low socially anxious adolescents on all four social skills. Moreover, for all skills except facial expressions, group differences could not be attributed to adolescents’ self-reported level of depression. We suggest that therapists take the perceptions of same age peers into account when assessing the social skills of socially anxious youth. Springer US 2009-08-13 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2809944/ /pubmed/19680804 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-009-9345-x Text en © The Author(s) 2009 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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