The relationship of day care quality to children's free-play behavior and social problem-solving skills

1988 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan D. Holloway ◽  
Marina Reichhart-Erickson
Author(s):  
Efe Ibrahim Efeoğlu ◽  
Sevgi Ozcan

The aim of this study is to identify the relationship between social problem solving ability and burnout level of health professionals in a southeast city of Turkey. Material and Method: Data were collected using a self-reported questionnaire with the Short Form of Social Problem Solving Inventory and Maslach Burnout Inventory. A total number of 356 health professionals participated in the study. Results: Of all the participants; 44.1% were nurses, 27.0% were doctors and 28.9% consisted of other health professionals. Functional social problem solving dimensions were negatively correlated with emotional exhaustion and depersonalization and positively correlated with personal accomplishment. Conclusion: There is a negative correlation between social problem solving ability and burnout levels of health professionals. Evaluating social problem skills may allow to identify the ones who may be at risk for burnout; and improving their social problem solving skills may protect them from burnout.


2012 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 929-937 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsunori Sumi

The present study of a Japanese sample used a prospective approach to examine the relationship between self-rated social problem-solving ability and quality of interpersonal relationships. The Japanese versions of the Problem-Solving Self-Efficacy Scale, Problem-Solving Skills Scale, and the Interpersonal Relationship Inventory short form were administered to 139 female and 148 male Japanese college students, who participated in two sessions separated by 6 wk. (Time 1 and Time 2). Partial correlations controlling for scores on the interpersonal relationship scales at Time 1 indicated that self-ratings of social problem-solving ability were correlated with aspects of interpersonal relationships assessed at Time 2, and this relationship was stronger for men (five of six correlations were significant) than for women (two of six correlations were significant).


1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Rose-Krasnor ◽  
Kenneth H. Rubin ◽  
Cathryn L. Booth ◽  
Robert Coplan

The primary focus of this study was the assessment of children's social competence in relation to two aspects of the mother-child relationshipattachment security and maternal directiveness. Specifically, we expected concurrent child-mother attachment security to be positively correlated with children's positive social engagement and social problem-solving skills and negatively related to aggression, whereas maternal directiveness was predicted to show the opposite pattern of correlations. Subjects were 111 mothers and their 4-year-old target children, each paired with a same-sex, same-age unfamiliar control child. Maternal directiveness was assessed in co-operative task and free-play sessions involving the target child, target mother, and control child. The target child's social engagement and social problem-solving skills were measured during dyadic free play with the control child. Multiple regression analyses assessed relative contributions of maternal directiveness and attachment security to the prediction of child behaviour with the peer. Attachment security predicted positive social engagement. Maternal directiveness was associated only with aspects of the children's social problem-solving. These results support previous research linking child-mother attachment security, maternal control patterns and children's social competence, although our findings showed the importance of separating the influences of attachment quality and the socialisation aspects of parenting.


2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Worawan White ◽  
Joan S. Grant ◽  
Erica R. Pryor ◽  
Norman L. Keltner ◽  
David E. Vance ◽  
...  

Social support, stigma, and social problem solving may be mediators of the relationship between sign and symptom severity and depressive symptoms in people living with HIV (PLWH). However, no published studies have examined these individual variables as mediators in PLWH. This cross-sectional, correlational study of 150 PLWH examined whether social support, stigma, and social problem solving were mediators of the relationship between HIV-related sign and symptom severity and depressive symptoms. Participants completed self-report questionnaires during their visits at two HIV outpatient clinics in the Southeastern United States. Using multiple regression analyses as a part of mediation testing, social support, stigma, and social problem solving were found to be partial mediators of the relationship between sign and symptom severity and depressive symptoms, considered individually and as a set.


2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-350
Author(s):  
Cameron Montgomery

The relationship between stress and social problem-solving skills in student teachers (n=116) was examined in this study. Results suggest that the more student teachers increase their social problem-solving skills over the course of their student-teaching experience, the less their stress levels increase. The training of certain social problem-solving skills such as problem orientation, generation of alternative solutions, and the development of cognitive and affective strategies was found to be a promising method for reducing student teachers’ stress. The more student teachers are taught to manage their emotional stress and relax after school to increase their relaxation potential, the more they succeed in reducing anxiety and overcoming depression.


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