Research from a number of social psychological traditions suggests that social perceivers should be more concerned with evaluating others' intentions (i.e., warmth) relative to evaluating others' ability to act on those intentions (i.e., competence). The present research examined whether warmth evaluations have cognitive primacy over competence evaluations in a direct reaction-time comparison a...

The goals of this study were to examine the additive and interactive effects of cumulative risk and child negative emotionality on children’s social competence in the transition from preschool to school and to test whether these associations were mediated by child emotion regulation within a sample of 310 low-income, ethnically diverse boys. Multiple informants and methods were used to measure ...

This article concerns social skills interventions for children with emotional/behavioral disorders. Drawing on the author’s teaching experience and the findings of research on social skills training in schools, and exploring effective ways to facilitate children’s social skill development, the paper describes how social skills interventions can be accomplished through the use of a story-based m...

BACKGROUND This study compared children and adolescents with epilepsy with their healthy peers on measures of social competence. METHODS Children and adolescents with epilepsy (70 subjects aged 11-18 years; 47.1% girls) and their healthy peers in control group (95 subjects aged 11-18 years; 50.9% girls) were compared on measures of social competence from the Child Competence Checklist (part o...

Interviews and pictorial tasks were examined for convergent validity. Divergent validity was examined on three distinct robotic platforms, operating in different settings. PERCEPTION OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE? When designing interactive social technology, it is important to understand the user’s perceptions of the technology. We are specifically interested in measuring children’s subjective percepti...

Title of Document: THE IMPACT OF PARENTING PRACTICES AND EARLY CHILDHOOD CURRICULA ON CHILDREN’S ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND SOCIAL COMPETENCE Anne Townsend Kessenich, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor Sandra L. Hofferth Department of Family Studies Current research highlights the importance of early social competence for later academic success. Nevertheless, despite that documente...

This study focused on channel complementarity among various interpersonal communication channels (face-to-face, telephone, e-mail, text messaging, and Facebook). We looked at daily channel use among 136 participants and demonstrated complementary channel use among most combinations of channels, excluding face-to-face. We also extended channel complementarity theory by examining social competenc...

OBJECTIVE To examine perceived academic, social, and athletic competence as potential moderators of the relation between symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional disability in adolescents and young adults with a history of recurrent abdominal pain (RAP). METHODS We assessed IBS symptoms, competence, and disability by telephone interview in RAP patients five years following th...