Institute of Psychology, Unit Developmental and Educational Psychology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2010 Jan;38(1):33-41. doi: 10.1007/s10802-009-9345-x.
Previous studies using adult observers are inconsistent with regard to social skills deficits in nonclinical socially anxious youth. The present study investigated whether same age peers perceive a lack of social skills in the socially anxious. Twenty high and 20 low socially anxious adolescents (13-17 years old) were recorded giving a 5-min speech. Unfamiliar peer observers (12-17 years old) viewed the speech samples and rated four social skills: speech content, facial expressions, posture and body movement, and way of speaking. Peer observers perceived high socially anxious adolescents as significantly poorer than low socially anxious adolescents on all four social skills. Moreover, for all skills except facial expressions, group differences could not be attributed to adolescents' self-reported level of depression. We suggest that therapists take the perceptions of same age peers into account when assessing the social skills of socially anxious youth.
先前使用成年观察者进行的研究对于非临床社交焦虑青少年的社交技能缺陷存在不一致的结果。本研究调查了同龄同伴是否认为社交焦虑者缺乏社交技能。20 名高社交焦虑和 20 名低社交焦虑的青少年（13-17 岁）被要求进行 5 分钟的演讲。不熟悉的同龄同伴观察者（12-17 岁）观看演讲样本并对四项社交技能进行评分：演讲内容、面部表情、姿势和身体动作以及说话方式。同伴观察者认为高社交焦虑的青少年在所有四项社交技能上明显不如低社交焦虑的青少年。此外，除了面部表情之外，在所有技能上，组间差异都不能归因于青少年自我报告的抑郁水平。我们建议治疗师在评估社交焦虑青少年的社交技能时，考虑同龄同伴的看法。
