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RESPONSIVENESS OF ISOLATED VERSUS REJECTED CHILDREN TO SOCIAL SKILLS TRAINING
Author(s) -
Tiffen Kathryn,
Spence Susan H.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1986.tb01837.x
Subject(s) - psychology , nomination , social skills , social competence , developmental psychology , competence (human resources) , placebo , el niño , clinical psychology , social change , social psychology , pediatrics , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , political science , law , economics , economic growth
— Fifty children aged from 7 to 12 yr were identified as either isolated or rejected by peers on the basis of sociometric nomination. Subjects were randomly assigned to either social skills training (SST), attention placebo control (APC) or no‐treatment control (NTC). Social skills training was not found to produce beneficial effects for either isolates or rejects over and above any changes within the APC or NTC groups. Rejected children in all experimental conditions showed minimal improvement over time whereas isolated children in a groups tended to show improvements in social competence.