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Published on: September 27, 2020
Cognitive social skills and social self-appraisal in depressed adolescents
P Marton1, J Connolly, S Kutcher
1Department of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Objective:
This study was undertaken to determine whether the social cognitive skills and social self-appraisal of depressed adolescents differed from those of other adolescents with nonaffective psychiatric disorders or of adolescents free from disorder.
Method:
Within the age range of 15 to 19, 38 depressed adolescent outpatients (14 boys, 24 girls); 31 nondepressed adolescent outpatients (17 boys, 14 girls); and 34 normal high-school students (18 boys, 16 girls) were assessed using the following dependent measures: Interpersonal Negotiation Interview, Adolescent Social Problem Solving Measure, Adolescent Self Perception Profile, and Interpersonal Dependency Inventory.
Results:
Depressed adolescents were found to have significantly more negative self-concepts and significantly less social self-confidence than either comparison group. They did not differ from the other adolescents in either social problem-solving ability or interpersonal understanding.
Conclusions:
These results indicate that depressed adolescents have unique deficits in social self-evaluation which contribute to ineffective social behavior and the maintenance of dysphoric affect. Treatment of social skill deficits should be based on a careful assessment of the patient's functioning in this area.
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