It is safe to say, however, that authoritative parenting works better than most other parenting styles in facilitating the
development of social competence in children at home and in the peer group.
We emphasize the importance of teaching individual social skills within the context of establishing a school - wide
culture of social competence.
According to a relation - theoretical approach, the construction of reciprocal relationships is an important
aspect of social competence.
A longitudinal study of socioeconomic status, family processes, and child adjustment from preschool until early elementary school: the
role of social competence.
Children with behaviour problems: the
influence of social competence and social relations on problem stability, school achievement and peer acceptance across the first six years of school.
The key
markers of social competence listed in the previous section are remarkably consistent across the developmental periods of the preschool years, middle childhood, and adolescence.
Some researchers have speculated that the
origins of social competence can be found in infancy, in the quality of the parent - child attachment relationship.
Children with depressive symptoms and children with aggressive symptoms displayed unique
profiles of social competence deficits and problematic status in the peer group.
This paper explores the development
of social competence by examining examples of research interviews conducted with 35 British undergraduate students on work placements.
Evidence compiled from studies using child interviews, direct observations, and teacher ratings all suggest that popular children exhibit high
levels of social competence.
In clinical psychology, the enhancement of self - esteem became integrated into
models of social competence and incorporated into the practices of cognitive behaviour modification.
By the end of the 1st school year (time 2), students in the K — 2 PeaceBuilder schools received significantly higher teacher
ratings of social competence compared to students in the control group.
In addition to being a member of the Collaborative for the Advancement of Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and the Consortium on the School - Based
Promotion of Social Competence, Dr. Zins is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and past secretary of the National Association of School Psychologists.
Spence et al. (1999) compared a group of social phobic children with a control group (age range 7 — 14 years) on a measure
of social competence with peers, as rated by a parent, and during natural observation of their interactions with peers at school.
Klin, A., Jones, W., Schultz, R., Volkmar, F. and Cohen, D. (2002) Visual fixation patterns during viewing of naturalistic social situations as predictors
of social competence in individuals with autism.
Goal I: Within the context of each Head Start and Early Head Start family's culture, enrolled children will demonstrate progress in healthy social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development and in the
achievement of social competence.
Measures utilized include The Teacher Social Competence, the Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction Questionnaire for Young Children — Teacher Version, the Walker - McConnell
Scales of Social Competence and School Adjustment, and the Seattle Personality Questionnaire.
These three social competence factors — skills, norms, values — cut across two general
concepts of social competence, one of which is «daily living skills» and comprises those social competencies that enable the individual to act independently within a social setting.
A longitudinal
study of social competence among children of alcoholics and nonalcoholic parents: Role of parental psychopathology, parental warmth, and self - regulation
The items were adopted from Valkenburg and Peter (2008), based on several earlier instruments measuring different aspects
of social competence among adolescents (i.e., Buhrmester et al., 1988).
At both time 3 and time 4, PeaceBuilder students in both grades K — 2 and 3 — 5 received significantly higher teacher ratings
of social competence compared to students in the control group.
Community violence, interpartner conflict, parenting, and social support as predictors
of the social competence of African American preschool children
The current study included nervousness and social skills as social performance variables, and social problems at school as an
indicator of social competence in long - term interactions.
Indeed, the capacity to recognize and interpret emotions in others is a fundamental building
block of social competence.2 Developmental psychologists and media scholars alike have argued that screen media play a crucial role in children's emotional development.3 Yet few studies address this larger issue, in part because researchers have given so much empirical attention instead to media's impact on maladaptive or antisocial behaviors.
Developing a school - wide culture
of social competence Schools are complex environments comprising heterogeneous populations and activities.
It is this combination of parenting strategies that Baumrind and others find the most facilitative in the development
of social competence during early childhood and beyond.