BACKGROUND The present study aimed at assessing the psychometric properties of psychosocial determinants of physical activity-related measures in Iranian adolescent girls. METHODS Several measures of psychosocial determinants of physical activity were translated from English into Persian using the back-translation technique. These translated measures were administered to 512 ninth and tenth-g...

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have deficits in social skills, and interaction with service dogs has been associated with increased social skills for children with ASD. In this telephone survey of 70 parents of children with ASD, children owning dogs had greater Mean scores for social skills, using the Social Skills Improvement System Rating Scale, while those with some type of pe...

Safety research in high-reliability industries, such as aviation, has clearly shown that the causes of accidents are primarily related to deficiencies in nontechnical (cognitive and social) skills, rather than a lack of technical expertise. Investigations into causes of error in anesthesia have revealed a similar pattern. The aviation industry uses behavioral marker systems to structure the tra...

Appropriate usage of social skills by individual members ensures the survival of communities in the human society. Social skills include the cognitive abilities as well as verbal and nonverbal behaviors indispensable for interpersonal interactions. Abnormal social skills have been reported in patients with mental illnesses including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Various methods, including...

The purpose of this chapter is to evaluate the capability ofsocial skills training approaches for preventing adolescent sub-stance abuse and to suggest directions for future research in thisarea. Social skills and training are defined from the perspectiveof social learning theory. Training approaches are then reviewedfor their effect on drug use and drug use-related behavior...

The relationship among depression, social skills, and suicidal behavior was examined in a sample of 41 adolescents hospitalized in a general medical setting following a suicide attempt. These subjects were compared to 40 nonsuicidal psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents. Level of depression, assessed using the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), and social skills, assessed via the Matson ...

The efficacy of replacing generic running with Taekwondo (TKD) specific technical skills during interval training at an intensity corresponding to 90-95% of maximum heart rate (HRmax) has not yet been demonstrated. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare the HR responses and perceived exertion between controlled running and high-intensity TKD technical interval training in adolescen...

objective: the aim of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties and factor structure of the matson evaluation of social skills with youngsters-ii (messy-ii) in a community population in iran. methods: the iranian version of the messy-ii was administered by interviewing care staff of all children and adolescents (n=355) with administratively defined intellectual disabilities ...

Background: During the growth process, young adults are often exposed to and involved in a number of risky behaviors which can have permanent social and health-related consequences. Moreover in clinical practice with adolescents, they frequently miss to comply with a therapeutic program. In this regard, designing proper interventions for adolescent behaviors is necessary. Psychodrama is a kind ...