出版社：Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences, Ko拧ice
摘要：Although social skills and competence are related concepts,they differ in some aspects.Social competence represents the ability to deal successfully with different social demands,to appropriately react,and to integrate social skills in different social situations and contexts (Spence,Donovan in Spence,2003;Bierman,Welsh,2000).According to Cook et al.(2008) person's social competence is derived from judgments of significant others.They judge whether a person has performed a social task competently.Children who have low social competence may experience some difficulties in everyday life such as rejection by peers,academic failure,loneliness,social dissatisfaction etc.(Parker,Asher in Maag,2005).Related concept to social competence is social skills.There are many definitions of social skills,but many authors agree that social skills represent behaviors,which enable to function effectively in social interactions.McFall (in Cook et al.,2008;Gáliková,2007) and Sheridan,Walker (in Sheridan,Maughan,Hungelmann,1999) point out that social skills are behaviors that must be taught and learned.Children learn social skills,they test them in social interactions and they receive judgments about their behavior from these social interactions.Person's behavior influences the perceptions and reactions of other people.The more a person is socially skilled,the less negative responses gets form others and is more successful in social and academic functioning (Spence,2003;Elliott,Malecki,Demaray,2001).
