Probst, Thomas and Geib, Corinna and Gueroff, Erika and Muehlberger, Andreas (2017) Training the social skill "being able to demand" vs. training the social skill "being able to say no". A randomized controlled trial with healthy individuals. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOR THERAPY AND EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHIATRY, 57. pp. 1-5. ISSN 0005-7916, 1873-7943
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Background and objectives: This randomized controlled trial evaluated whether training one of two social skills ("being able to say no" and "being able to demand") belonging to the domain "asserting one's rights" improves specifically the trained skill or the "asserting one's rights" domain in general. Methods: Ten social skills training groups comprising three weekly sessions and four healthy participants each were conducted. In each group, the participants were randomized either to the condition which practiced the social skill of "saying no" or to the condition which practiced the social skill of "demanding". Results: From pre-training to 3-month follow-up, participants of the "demanding" condition improved significantly on the "being able to demand" scale of the "Short Version of the Insecurity Questionnaire" (p = 0.047) but not on the "incapacity in saying no" scale of the "Short Version of the Insecurity Questionnaire" (p = 0.645), whereas participants of the "saying no" condition improved significantly on the "incapacity in saying no" scale of the "Short Version of the Insecurity Questionnaire" (p = 0.015) but not on the "being able to demand" scale of the "Short Version of the Insecurity Questionnaire" (p = 0.484). Limitations: Further studies are needed to evaluate whether the results of the present study can be generalized to clinical samples. Conclusions: This trial provides very preliminary evidence that training a specific social skill has specific, not generalized, effects. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved,
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | INTERVENTIONS; METAANALYSIS; Social skills training; Role-plays; Social skills |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 13:19 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2019 13:36 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/1822 |
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