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Psicologia: teoria e prática

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MIRELLA  and  LUCAS. Social skills and social anxiety in childhood and adolescence: a literature review. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.2, pp. 1-24. ISSN 1516-3687.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1980-6906/ePTPCP12606.

This study aimed to conduct a literature review of 20 years of empirical research (1997 to 2017) that studied the relationship between social skills and social anxiety in childhood and adolescence. Searches were carried out in the BVS, Scielo, Eric, PsycINFO, PsycNet, PubMed and Science Direct databases, using the keywords: social skills, social competence, social anxiety, social phobia, children and adolescents. A previous selection, based on titles and abstracts, recovered 40 potentially eligible articles. After the application of the inclusion and exclusion criteria by two judges, 16 articles were selected to be fully read and analyzed based on general categories. In addition, studies were grouped into three sets based on the results presented. Overall, the results pointed to a negative correlation between some specific classes of social skills and social anxiety. The results of this review have implications for conducting future studies, as well as for planning interventions focused on social skills deficits in children and adolescents with social anxiety.

Keywords : social skills; social competence; social anxiety; childhood; adolescence.

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