Assessing Online and Offline Adolescent Social Skills: Development and Validation of the Real and Electronic Communication Skills Questionnaire
| Autor: | Sophie Baudat, Grégoire Zimmermann, Gregory Mantzouranis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Online and offline Adolescent Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Applied psychology Poison control Context (language use) Adolescent Behavior/psychology Communication Factor Analysis Statistical Female Humans Internet/statistics & numerical data Interpersonal Relations Social Behavior Disorders/diagnosis Social Skills Surveys and Questionnaires Young Adult computer-mediated communication contextual differences online/offline comparison scale development social skills Interpersonal relationship Social skills Assertiveness Applied Psychology media_common Internet Social Behavior Disorders General Medicine Computer Science Applications Human-Computer Interaction Adolescent Behavior Social competence Computer-mediated communication Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 404-411 |
| ISSN: | 2152-2723 2152-2715 |
| DOI: | 10.1089/cyber.2018.0655 |
| Popis: | Studies examining the associations between Internet use and social skills are increasingly frequent. However, most of them only evaluate offline social skills and consider them as equivalents to online social skills. So far, no instrument allowed differentiating social skills depending on online versus offline contexts. This study aimed to develop and validate the Real and Electronic Communication Skills questionnaire (RECS), a new measure evaluating several dimensions of social skills in two different contexts (i.e., face-to-face and computer-mediated communication). Results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses among a sample of 657 adolescents and young adults (mean age = 17.68 years; 67% female) showed that the best fitting model for each context is a bifactor solution, with one general factor (Social Competence) and four specific factors (Sociability, Emotion Decoding, Disclosure, and Assertiveness). Each specific factor was differentially correlated with theoretically relevant subscales of the Social Skills Inventory, confirming the external validity of the RECS. The RECS is the first instrument allowing not only to assess social competence in online settings but also to quantify the relationships between offline social skills and their online counterpart. Given its ease of use and brevity, the RECS is a useful and promising instrument to capture social skills in both online and offline contexts. |
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