Conversational Skills of Inpatient Conduct-Disordered Youths
- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Behavior Modification
- Vol. 12 (3) , 424-444
- https://doi.org/10.1177/01454455880123007
Abstract
The conversational skills of 24 inpatient conduct-disordered youths and 32 "normal" youths from the community were assessed and compared. A panel of 12 peer judges provided global ratings of subjects' conversational skill. Moderate to high amounts of the variance in the peer ratings were accounted for by conversational-skill component behaviors, especially for the inpatient conduct disordered youths. Compared to the nonpatient youths, the inpatient youths were significantly deficient in their use of a variety of conversational-skill component behaviors and received significantly lower peer ratings of conversational skill. Implications of the findings for social-skills training and research are discussed.Keywords
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