ID

Study

(author, year)

Participants (N, age, gender)

Study design

Components of social competence

Measurements of social competence

1

Cortese et al., 2005 [17]

N = 56

9 - 16

Boys and girls

Observational

Self-esteem

Multidimensional Self Concept Scale―MSCS

2

Riggs, Sakuma and Pentz, 2007 [15]

N = 200

11

Boys and girls

Interventional

Self-control

Questionnaire developed by the authors

3

Stein, Fisher, Berkey and Colditz, 2007 [18]

N = 8670

9 - 14

Boys and girls

Observational

Self-perception

Harter Self-Perception

Profile for Children (Harter, 1985) ―adapted version

4

Eriksson, Nordqvist and Rasmussen, 2008 [19]

N = 1124

12

Boys and girls

Observational

Self-esteem

Self-perception

Harter’s Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents (Harter, 1988)

5

Zeller, Reiter-Purtill and Ramey, 2008 [20]

N = 166

8 - 16

Boys and girls

Observational

Adult appreciation (teachers)

Self-valuation

Peers-perception

Child’s peer acceptance (Asher, Singleton, Tinsley and Hymel, 1979)

Revised Class Play―RCP (Masten, Morison and Pellegrini, 1985)

6

Martyn-Nemeth, Penckofer, Gulanick, Velsor-Friedrich and Bryant, 2009 [21]

N = 102

14 - 18

Boys and girls

Observational

Self-esteem

Rosenberg Self-Esteem short-form (Rosenberg, 1965)

Coping Across Situations Questionnaire ―CASQ

(Seiffge-Krenke, 1995)

7

Russ, Larson, Franke and Halfon, 2009 [22]

N = 54,863

6 - 17

Boys and girls

Observational

Social functioning

Questions made for this study

8

Luiz, Gorayeb, Liberatore Jr and Domingos, 2010 [3]

N = 90

7 - 13

Boys and girls

Observational

Social competence

Child Behavior Checklist―CBCL (Achenbach and Edelbrock, 1991)

9

Lumeng et al., 2010 [23]

N = 821

8 - 11

Boys and girls

Observational

Social skills (assertiveness, empathy and self-control)

Social Skills Rating System―SSRS (Gresham and Elliott, 1990)

10

Meyer and Barbosa, 2010 [24]

N = 2

13 - 16

Boys and girls

Interventional

Assertiveness

Isolation

Data record for functional analysis

11

Schoen-Ferreira, Sayegh, Damaso and Cintra., 2010 [6]

N = 160

14 - 19

Boys and girls

Observational

Social relationship

Peers interaction

The Friendship Questionnaire―FQ (Baron-Cohen and Wheelwright, 2003, Pedromônico, Marteleto and Schoen-Ferreira, 2004)

12

Tsukayama, Toomey, Faith and Duckworth, 2010 [25]

N = 844

15

Boys and girls

Observational

Social skills

SSRS (Gresham and Elliott, 1990)

13

de Niet, Timman, Jongejan, Passchier and van den Akker, 2011 [26]

N = 248

8 - 14

Boys and girls

Interventional

Social Competence

CBCL (Achenbach and Edelbrock, 1991)

14

de Niet et al., 2011 [27]

N = 248

8 - 14

Boys and girls

Interventional

Social Competence

CBCL (Achenbach and Edelbrock, 1991)