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Social competence: an evolutionary approach [PDF]
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2012 'Social competence' refers to the ability of an individual to optimise its social behaviour depending on available social information. Although such ability will enhance social interactions and thus raise Darwinian fitness, its evolutionary and ecological significance has been largely ignored. Social competence is based on behavioural flexibility.
Taborsky Barbara, Oliveira Rui Filipe
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Measuring Social Competencies [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 What are social competencies, how can they be measured, and do they remain stable over time. This contribution examines the difficulties in conceptualising and measuring social competencies at different developmental stages and in a changing social context.
Ingrid Schoon
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The Effect of Maternal Trait Mindfulness on Preschoolers’ Social Competence: The Chain-Mediating Role of Maternal Self-Control and Problematic Social Media Use [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 The impact of maternal trait mindfulness on the development of preschoolers’ social competence is receiving increasing attention from researchers. However, the mediating mechanisms that link maternal mindfulness to preschoolers’ social competence are ...
Jinxia Han +5 more
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Social Emotional Competence – too much or too little [PDF]
International Journal of Emotional Education, 2014 When we measure social competence, the scores indicate that a person can become better and better just as in other school subjects such as history or geography.
Knut K. Gundersen
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Health Research Policy and Systems, 2022 Background Public involvement in health and social care research is increasingly prioritized by policy-makers and research funders. Often, the impact of the involvement is described in terms of how it has contributed to the research outcomes and how it ...
Camilla Malm +3 more
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Social Networks with Competing Products [PDF]
Fundamenta Informaticae, 2014 We introduce a new threshold model of social networks, in which the nodes influenced by their neighbours can adopt one out of several alternatives. We characterize social networks for which adoption of a product by the whole network is possible (respectively necessary) and the ones for which a unique outcome is guaranteed.
K.R. Apt (Krzysztof) +1 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 A common interpretation of the face-processing deficits associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is that they arise from a failure to develop normative levels of perceptual expertise.
Kathryn M. Hauschild +5 more
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Exploring two subdimensions of participation, involvement and engagement: A scoping review
Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2021 Background The conceptualisation of participation is an ongoing discussion with importance for measurement purposes. The aim of this study was to explore the two subjective subdimensions of participation, involvement and engagement.
Friedolin Steinhardt +3 more
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Partnership in Times of COVID-19: Government and Civil Society in Austria
Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2021 How did the relation between Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and government develop during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, once governments had taken restrictive measures to lock down economic and public life?
Meyer Michael +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 While previous studies have explored multiple constraints affecting women exporters, the effects of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) are still unexplored in the literature. Thus, this study aims to probe first whether women owners of micro
Jazmín E. Ponce-Gómez +4 more
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