Social Skills as Predictors of Problem Behavior in School Children

• Autor(a) principal: Casali-Robalinho, Ivana Gisel
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Del Prette, Zilda Aparecida Pereira, Del Prette, Almir
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/18608
• topic: psicologia do desenvolvimento; habilidades sociais; Habilidades sociais; Problemas de comportamento; Crianças em idade escolar; Social skills; Behavior problems; School-age children

This study realized a characterization of social skills and behavior problems in children and evaluated thepredictive power of social skills for behavior problems. The participants were 220 children, from 3rd to 6th grade of ElementarySchool, and their parents or guardians, who responded to the Assessment of Social Skills (SSRS-BR) system. The samplescores were consistent with the norm for social skills and behavior problems, and according to the parents or guardians, theinternalizing were more frequent. Also,Responsibility (in the self-assessment) and Self-control and Civility (in the assessmentby parents or guardians) were the social skills with the greatest predictive power. The results were analyzed in terms of theirimplications for the promotion of social skills as a preventive mechanism for behavioral problems in school children.