The Relation between Third- through Eighth-Grade Children's Social Cognition and Parents' Ratings of Social Skills and General Adjustment

Summary

This study examined the relation between three aspects of 189 third-through eighth-grade children's social cognition (interpersonal understanding, perceived social self-competence, and public self awareness) and parents' assessments of children's social skills and personal adjustment. Children's low performance on all three social cognition tasks was significantly related to parents' perceptions of many social skills problems. Parents' perceptions of general child maladjustment were significantly related to children's low performance on the interpersonal understanding and perceived social self-competence tasks. The results are consistent with previous findings of a positive relation between children's social cognition and their interpersonal competence.