Social skills and negative life events: Testing the deficit stress generation hypothesis |
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Authors: | Chris Segrin |
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Institution: | (1) University of Arizona, USA;(2) Department of Communication, University of Arizona, 85721 Tucson, AZ |
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Abstract: | People who possess poor social skills have been hypothesized to experience negative events and consequently become vulnerable
to psychosocial problems. This is characterized as the social skills deficit stress generation hypothesis. Two studies were
conducted to examine this hypothesis. In study 1, 677 university students completed measures of social skills and negative
life events that had occurred over the past three months. In study 2, 142 students participated in a 9 month, 3 wave longitudinal
study that assessed social skills at times 1 and 3 and negative life events at times 2 and 3. Results of the investigations
indicate generally negative associations between social skills and negative life events, but these associations were stronger
concurrently than prospectively. Although social skills were predicted to be associated with negative life events that are
social in nature, in most cases they were equally predictive of nonsocial negative life events. The associations between the
social skills and life events were consistently small in magnitude.
This research was supported in part by University of Kansas General Research allocation 3011-20-0038 and 3825-20-0038.
The author expresses gratitude to Jeanne Flora, Clark Henry, and Michelle Menees for their assistance with coding. |
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