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PubMed1986

Sociometric status and social interaction: are the neglected children socially less active?

Previous studies have clearly established that isolated children display less social behaviors than popular ones and that poorly accepted as well as isolated children are at risk for future adjustment problems. These findings prompt the author to predict that children of the various sociometric statuses should display differential rates of social interaction with peers. Predictions were tested by administering during the second term to 99 kindergarten children a sociometric measure and by videotaping each child for 1 hr. during free play. Whether or not the child was in social interaction with peers was subsequently coded at 5-sec. intervals by two observers. Sociometric scores and inter- and intraobserver agreements were high. Popular children were the most socially active, followed by the average, the rejected, and then the neglected children, which confirmed all hypotheses. These results give strong support for the validity of the difference between the neglect and rejected vs the popular and the average children and suggested that such work must include the child's rate of social interaction with peers as a covariable in the analyses to identify differences between statuses.

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PubMed2001

Peer conflict avoidance: associations with loneliness, social anxiety, and social avoidance.

Failure to resolve peer conflict is associated with children's reports of loneliness, social anxiety, and social avoidance. Although these relationships are well established, researchers have not examined the association between the avoidance of peer conflict and various adjustment characteristics. The current study examined the association between avoidance of conflict and measures of loneliness, social anxiety, and social avoidance for 59 pupils in Grade 4 (31 boys and 28 girls) and 47 in Grade 8 (22 boys and 25 girls). Volunteers indicated that conflict avoidance based on autonomy, e.g., independence issues, and interpersonal issues, e.g., closeness and cohesion, was associated with scores on loneliness for boys and girls, respectively. Conflict avoidance for emotional and physical well-being and fear of punishment was associated with increased reports of loneliness and social anxiety for children in Grade 4.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2006

Effects of postweaning social isolation and re-socialization on the expression of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and dendritic development in the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat.

In the present study we evaluated the effects of early social isolation and re-socialization on dendritic development and the expression of the vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of the rat. Sprague-Dawley male rats were reared either in isolation (IC) or social (SC) conditions from postnatal day 18 to 32. Rats were then behaviorally evaluated in the open field test, and approximately half of the animals were sacrificed. Their brains were processed either for immunocytochemical labeling against VIP or for the Golgi-Cox-Sholl staining. The remaining IC rats were re-socialized during 30 additional days. The results demonstrated that early social isolation impair neuronal dendritic arborization and increase the number of VIP-immunoreactive neurons. Furthermore, animals displayed hyperlocomotion in the open-field test. According to our structural, immunocytochemical and open-field data, the resocialization experience was unable to reverse neuronal and behavioral abnormalities.

Age Factors↗
PubMedDate not supplied

[Social unsuitability in the developmental age. Hypothesis for new structures helping social adjustment].

In this report the Authors analise, according to their different competences, from a psychiatric, psycho-sociological, and of judicial politics point of view, a case of neurosis of conflict during adolescence, with an anti-social development, regarding which it has been ascertained that the measures of restoration, which have been adopted, have failed their purpose. They have, as a matter of fact, paradoxically fixed the subject even more in his anti-social condition, not giving him the possibility of escaping the psycho-pathological destiny of negative sociopatic deviation. The Authors, in this report, reflect upon the meaning of the Institutes of restoration and punishment in the light of the new re-educational conceptions, pointing out their limits. They long for the institution of supplementary structures of little dimensions in the bosom of the family, well integrated with the school, the working milieu, and the local community and wish the structures of restoration for anti-social disadaptations to stop from being static Institutions far from the real social problems of a democratic life, in order to become centers of social democratic life and places of comparison, according to a dialectic method of knowledge, between subculture as deviation (which is not always negative) and the dominating culture with its needs and rules.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2000

Neighbourhood cohesion and health in socially contrasting neighbourhoods: implications for the social exclusion and public health agendas.

OBJECTIVE: To report on perceived neighbourhood cohesion and describe its social distribution. DESIGN: Analysis of data from third wave of data collection from Localities component of West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study, collected in 1997 by postal survey. SETTING: Socially contrasting neighbourhoods in Glasgow City in the West of Scotland. SUBJECTS: Five hundred and ninety seven people (262 males, 336 females), participants in a longitudinal study. RESULTS: Respondents who are older, live in owner-occupied houses in more affluent areas and who are not working outside the home report significantly more positive assessments of perceived neighbourhood cohesion. Sex, social class and family circumstances did not predict perceived neighbourhood cohesion. There were significant associations between neighbourhood cohesion and self assessed health in the last year; mental health using the GHQ12 measure; total number of symptoms reported in the last month; and reported number of 'malaise' or 'physical' symptoms after taking socio-demographic factors into account. CONCLUSION: Lack of social cohesion may be more common in deprived areas in Scotland and may produce poorer mental health. Living in an area with low levels of social cohesion may be part of the pathway between life circumstances and death.

Adult↗
PubMed1987

Assessing social networks and social support in epidemiologic studies.

Epidemiologists and other researchers in the biomedical field have recently recognized the potential importance of social networks and the support they provide in maintaining health and well being. However, measuring social networks and social support has not proven to be easy, measures are generally not well validated and critical dimensions or characteristics of networks have yet to be identified. The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with some background on the work being done in this area. In particular, attention is devoted to why, historically, social networks have been suspected of playing a role in disease causation, what some important characteristics of networks are likely to be, examples of measures currently in use, and what the biological pathways are that may link networks to morbidity and mortality. A description of the Alameda County Study in California is given. In this study, people who were socially isolated were found to be over twice as likely to die in a nine-year follow-up period as those with many contacts. This increased risk was found to be independent of alcohol and cigarette consumption, obesity and other health practices.

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PubMedDate not supplied

[Social structure and social behavior of elderly ambulatory surgical patients].

Geriatric surgery is getting more and more important. Rising expectation of life, improved pre- and postoperative therapy deferred the age limit for elective operations for about 20 years above the former average. In a chance control we examined the social structure and the social behaviour of older ambulant patients suffering from surgical complaints. The arrangement of those patients according to their age, their homing conditions, their working time after their age limit and the general possibilities of communication were analysed. The importance of the social anamnesis for the therapeutic effect was proved. The regular increase of appropriate dwellings for older persons has to be secured. The possibilities contacts between old-age pensioners and social organisations have to be developed furthermore in order to integrate more and more older persons into social life.

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PubMed1981

Effectiveness of a social learning method for enhancing children's social interaction and peer acceptance.

Previous research indicates that the consequences of peer isolation or rejection may be severe. The present investigation examined changes in low-accepted children's behavior and peer acceptance resulting from social learning approach to social skill training. Third-grade children responded to a sociometric measure and were later observed on targeted social skills. 36 children with low scores on both criteria were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 experimental conditions: skill training, attention control, and nontreatment control. Children in the training condition were coached in 3 social skills: asking questions, leading, and offering support to peers. Sociometric and observational assessments were conducted upon completion of the experimental procedures and at follow-up. Trained children spent a significantly greater percentage of time engaging in 2 of the 3 trained skills at posttest and follow-up, whereas control group children remained the same or declined. Unlike their control group counterparts, trained children also evidenced significant and lasting gains in classroom peer acceptance. The results are interpreted as support for the intervention's effectiveness and a social learning explanation of behavioral change.

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PubMed1982

Social activation of the elderly. A social experiment.

Social isolation and understimulation are considered to be major problems among institutionalized aged. This article describes an 'activation' program for elderly people living in a senior citizen apartment building. The intention of the research team was to devise a program together with the elderly and the staff, the goals being to increase social activation and self-dependence among the elderly. The program devised was implemented within the apartment's existing financial framework, involving no additional costs, overtime work or external resources. The program was designed in such a way as to allow for measurement of social activation in both the experimental and control groups. This report focuses primarily on the problems which arose in the personnel group in conjunction with the program. Evaluation of these problems was carried out by means of tape-recorded personnel meetings. This paper presents the analysis of these recordings. It was of major importance to the program that any organizational changes be enacted only on the initiative of the elderly and the staff themselves. The results show that it is possible, with relatively simple and inexpensive methods, to stimulate the elderly's interests and counteract social isolation and understimulation.

Aged↗
PubMedDate not supplied

The relationship of social context of drinking, perceived social norms, and parental influence to various drinking patterns of adolescents.

An anonymous questionnaire was administered to a sample of over 890 adolescent drinkers. The questionnaire contained measures of their social context of drinking, perceived social norms, and perceived parental behaviors regarding drinking. These measures were related to a variety of alcohol problem behaviors including binge drinking, driving while alcohol-impaired, riding with an alcohol-impaired driver, and experiencing one or more negative consequences because of drinking. Results indicated that drinking frequently in a social context of social facilitation, stress control or school defiance, as well as having close friends engage in these behaviors, tended to separate alcohol abusers from nonabusers. The implications for program development are discussed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2001

Value-based praxis in community psychology: moving toward social justice and social action.

The purpose of this paper is to articulate a rationale for value-based praxis in community psychology. Although values need to promote personal, collective, and relational wellness at the same time, it is argued that community psychologists pay more attention to personal and relational wellness than to collective wellness. In order to address this imbalance it is important to promote the value of social justice. While praxis requires that we engage in a cycle of reflection, research, and social action, community psychologists devote more resources to the first two phases of praxis than to the last one. This paper offers a framework for deciding what values and what praxis considerations we should attend to and how we may advance social justice and social action in community psychology.

Community Health Planning↗
PubMed1985

Social factors in psychopathology: stress, social support, and coping processes.

Our review has focused centrally on the etiologic significance of social factors in the development of psychopathology. Our implicit assumption has been that social factors in general, and stressors in particular, may play a causal role in the development of psychopathology. Yet the evidence is clear that the vast majority of people who are exposed to stressful life events or to chronic stress situations do not develop significant psychiatric impairments. For this reason, research interest over the past decade has shifted to factors like social support and coping strategies that may ameliorate the impact of stress. We have examined some of the important empirical results from recent studies of stress, support, and coping, and we have discussed ways in which these new understandings have informed long-standing attempts to explain group differences in emotional functioning. In each section of the review we have attempted not only to summarize existing results but also to provide some evaluation of the literature and suggestions for future research. It is important to recognize that the contributors to the work reviewed here do not all share a common research agenda. Some of them are primarily committed to unraveling the psychosocial determinants of a particular clinical disorder. Others are mainly concerned with the effects of a particular stressor. Still others are interested in the processes that link stress to health across a broad array of stress situations and health outcomes. In the face of these diverse interests, it is little wonder that our understanding of social factors in psychopathology is uneven. There is good reason to believe, however that these diverse strands of research are beginning to converge on a common conception of the stress process and on a common research design. The conception at present is only in rough form, but its outlines are nonetheless capable of description. At its center is the notion that stress exposure sets off a process of adaptation. It recognizes that this process unfolds over time, and it acknowledges that this process is modified by structural factors as well as by personal dispositions and vulnerabilities. There is growing recognition that the analysis of this process requires longitudinal methods. Also, it is becoming increasingly clear that experimental interventions are required to unravel the parts of this process that link stress and health. It is too early to know if this nascent convergence will lead to an integrative theory of adaptation, yet it is almost certain to promote methodological and conceptual rigor and facilitate replication and cumulation of findings.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1986

The effects of a classroom manager role on the social interaction patterns and social status of withdrawn kindergarten students.

We examined the effects of assigning a classroom manager's role on the frequency of social interactions and the sociometric standing of three withdrawn kindergarten students. Results showed that when the three socially withdrawn students were placed in the manager's role they substantially increased the frequency of their positive social initiations during free-play time, were the recipients of many more positive and significantly fewer negative social bids from their peers, were rated more favorably by their classmates on a sociometric rating scale, and were selected more frequently as best friends by their peers. In addition, follow-up data suggested partial maintenance of treatment effects when students no longer occupied manager positions.

Child Behavior Disorders↗
PubMed2003

In search of social phobia subtypes: similarity of feared social situations.

The existence of subtypes of social phobia has been questioned. Although cluster analytic methods have been used to support various subtype models, a continuous model based on total number of feared social situations seems equally plausible. In a community sample, we calculated mean similarity measures for combinations of item pairs of feared social situations. Speaking fear items were significantly more similar to each other than to other items. There was also a trend for interaction fear items to be more similar to each other than to other items. These findings suggest that fear of speaking and interactional situations may represent distinct domains of socially feared situations. They should be considered separately in delineation of treatment response and may, if replicated in clinical samples, help identify meaningful subtypes of social phobia.

Adult↗
PubMed2004

Appraisal of social concerns: a cognitive assessment instrument for social phobia.

The current study describes the validation of a new cognitive assessment measure for social phobia, entitled the Appraisal of Social Concerns (ASC). Item content is relevant to a range of social situations. The ASC can be used to tailor interventions to patients' idiosyncratic concerns. Data are presented from both clinical (n = 71) and non-clinical (n = 550) samples. Preliminary data indicate that the ASC has good internal consistency and test-retest reliability. The construct validity of the ASC is comparable to that of well-established measures in use with social phobics. A strength of the ASC is its sensitivity to the effect of treatment. An exploratory factor analysis yielded three factors tapping concerns about negative evaluation, observable symptoms, and social helplessness. Subscale scores were strongly correlated. Preliminary findings suggest that the ASC is a psychometrically sound, time efficient instrument that can be used for both clinical and research purposes.

Adult↗
PubMed1998

Effects of dopamine agonists and antagonists on PCP-induced stereotyped behaviour and social isolation in the rat social interaction test.

Phencyclidine (PCP) can induce a model psychosis in humans that resembles an acute schizophrenic psychosis. In animal models of schizophrenia, PCP induces locomotor hyperactivity, stereotyped behaviour and social isolation, and the purpose of the present study was to describe the ability of dopamine agonists and antagonists to mimic or interact with these PCP-induced behaviours in rats. The compounds were administered daily for 3 days in combination with vehicle or 2.0 mg/kg PCP and the rats were tested in the social interaction test on the last day of drug administration. The study showed that D1-agonists with relative differences in efficacy at the DA-stimulated adenylate cyclase had limited effects on the PCP-induced behaviours, whereas the D1-antagonist SCH 23391 could alleviate the PCP-induce social isolation following daily treatment for 3 days. However, following long-term treatment for 21 days, the rats develop tolerance to this effect. These data thus suggested that the D1-receptor system only had a modulatory effect on PCP. In contrast, the D2-receptor family may be more directly involved, because the D2/D3/D4-agonist quinpirole could mimic and potentiate the PCP-induced deficits in social behaviour, and the D2/D3-antagonist (-)sulpiride could alleviate the PCP-induced stereotyped behaviour and social isolation. However, a D4-antagonist did not affect the behaviour of vehicle- and PCP-treated rats, suggesting that this system plays a less direct role in the behavioural effects of PCP. In general, however, the effects of SCH 23391, quinpirole and (-)sulpiride on the PCP-induced behaviours were mirrored in the vehicle-treated control groups and it is therefore possible that non-specific effects may have been important.

Animals↗
PubMed2006

Common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) do not utilize social information in three simultaneous social foraging tasks.

Social foraging is suggested to increase foraging efficiency, as individuals might benefit from public information acquired by monitoring the foraging activities of other group members. We conducted a series experiments with captive common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) to investigate to what extent marmosets utilize social information about food location when foraging simultaneously with conspecifics. Subjects were confronted with dominant and subordinate demonstrators in three experiments which differed in the amount of information about food location available to the demonstrators. In all three experiments, the focal subjects' performance in the social condition was not enhanced in comparison to a non-social control condition. Because we could rule out kleptoparasitism and aggressive displacements as explanations, we argue that the subjects' tendency for scramble competition by avoiding others and dispersing over the foraging area seems to inhibit or mask the acquisition of social information about the location of rewarded patches.

Animals↗
PubMed1990

Exposure in vivo vs social skills training for social phobia: long-term outcome and differential effects.

This study examined the long-term effectiveness of specific exposure in vivo (individual IE or group GE) and of office-based social skills training (group SST) in two groups of patients with social inhibition (primary social skills deficits or primary social phobia). Seventy-eight outpatients were divided into these two subgroups according to clinical assessment. Twenty-seven patients received SST which consisted of 25 twice a week 90-min group sessions: 32 patients received GE and 17 IE. Exposure in vivo consisted of 4 weekly (8-hr in the group condition included 2 hr discussion; 3 hr in the individual condition included 1 hr discussion) sessions. Self-rating-assessments were carried out at pre- and post-treatment, at 3 months- and 2.5 yr follow-up. The general results indicate that all three treatment modes led to clinically and statistically-significant improvements in the main problem area (social anxiety, skills deficits), in other neurotic complaints (depression, obsessions, psychosomatic complaints) and in attribution-style. Patients with the diagnosis of primary phobia seemed to get the same profit from either treatment and showed slightly better gains (in all treatment modalities) than patients with skills deficits at long-term follow-up. Within the subgroup with skills deficits there was a tendency for superior outcome of group exposure. These results and recommendations for future research are discussed.

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