Neglected and Rejected Children: A Social-Skills Model

1 July 1987

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Psychology

Vol. 121 (4) , 401-407
https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1987.9712680

Abstract

This study examined the hypothesis that rejected children's inability to interact successfully with their peers stems from misperception of nonverbal communication cues, whereas neglected children have the necessary perceptual skills and their inability arises because they are unable to use them. Comparisons were made among 5- and 9-year-old neglected, rejected, and control children (six groups, N = 15 per group) on four tasks: affective empathy, cognitive empathy, decoding of facial expressions of emotion, and decoding of emotional situations. The results, which were consistent with the hypothesis, are interpreted in a social-skills model based on the work of Argyle and Powers.

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