The present study tests the mediating role of daily hassles to explain the relation between social skills deficits and depression. This has been characterized as “the social skills deficit stress generation hypothesis” (Segrin, 2001). Two-hundred and seventy-seven adolescents participated in the study. Measures of social skills, daily hassles, and depression were obtained from standardized, self-administered questionnaires: the Social Skills Inventory (Riggio, 1986), the Problems Questionnaire (Seiffge-Krenke, 1995), and the Beck Depresion Inventory (Beck et al., 1961), respectively. Regression analyses were performed to test for the mediation models. The results show that the effect of several dimensions of social skills on depressive symptomatology is not significant when controlling hassles scores, whereas the latter predicted depressive symptoms. This result holds for the Emotional Sensitivity and the Social Sensitivity dimensions of the SSI scale. Findings suggest that daily hasless might represent a mechanism through which several social skills are able to influence depressive symptoms.
Social skills deficits and depressive symptomatology: The mediator role of daily hassles
BERROCAL MONTIEL, CARMEN;
2005-01-01
Abstract
The present study tests the mediating role of daily hassles to explain the relation between social skills deficits and depression. This has been characterized as “the social skills deficit stress generation hypothesis” (Segrin, 2001). Two-hundred and seventy-seven adolescents participated in the study. Measures of social skills, daily hassles, and depression were obtained from standardized, self-administered questionnaires: the Social Skills Inventory (Riggio, 1986), the Problems Questionnaire (Seiffge-Krenke, 1995), and the Beck Depresion Inventory (Beck et al., 1961), respectively. Regression analyses were performed to test for the mediation models. The results show that the effect of several dimensions of social skills on depressive symptomatology is not significant when controlling hassles scores, whereas the latter predicted depressive symptoms. This result holds for the Emotional Sensitivity and the Social Sensitivity dimensions of the SSI scale. Findings suggest that daily hasless might represent a mechanism through which several social skills are able to influence depressive symptoms.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
