Social skills of persons with self-defeating personality.

Full Abstract

55 undergraduate men and 55 women took Schill's 1990 Self-defeating Personality Scale and Lorr, Youniss, and Stefic's (1991) multidimensional Social Relations Survey. As expected, persons who endorsed more self-defeating characteristics scored lower on scales which make up the Social Skills or Assertiveness Factor. However, these scores did not have significant correlations with the Empathy or Social Approval Need Scales; two of the three scales which make up the Empathy Factor. The results were discussed in terms of prior work relating deficits in social skills to dysfunctional early parenting.

Author information

Author/s: Schill, T (T);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale 62901-6502, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Psychological reports (Psychol Rep), published in UNITED STATES. (Language: eng)

Reference: 1995-Oct; vol 77 (issue 2) : pp 632-4

Dates: Created 1996/02/23; Completed 1996/02/23; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 8559893, status: MEDLINE (last retrieved date: 2/18/2009)

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