Social Skills Training in the Promotion of Effective Coping: A Pilot Trial

• Autor(a) principal: Bezerra, Gabrielle Selleri
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Feitosa, Fabio Biasotto, Wagner, Márcia Fortes, Rodríguez , Tomás Daniel Menéndez, Rodrigues, Alessandra da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/14090
• topic: university; stress; Social Skills Training; coping; clinical trial; universidad; estrés; Entrenamiento de Habilidades Sociales; coping; prueba experimental; universidade; estresse; Treinamento de Habilidades Sociais; coping; ensaio clínico

This research aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a Social Skills Training (SST) in increasing social skills, reducing stress levels, and developing effective coping of eight female undergraduate Psychology students. The participants were recruited through a form sent on social media and telephone contact and were voluntarily submitted to the intervention at the university in which they studied. The intervention, analogous to a quasi-experiment, had pre- and posttest evaluations without a control group, using the instruments Social Skills Inventory 2 (IHS2-Del-Prette), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS14), Folkman and Lazarus’ Coping Strategies Inventory, interviews, and a field diary. The results indicated stress reduction, acquisition of social skills, and enhancement of problem-solving strategies. Further studies regarding the evaluation of the SST's efficacy in a larger and more heterogeneous sample of university students would be worthwhile.