Affective Social Competence in Adolescence: Current Findings and Future Directions

Abstract

Affective Social Competence (ASC) is a conceptual framework describing complementary processes of sending, receiving, and experiencing emotions in dynamic interactions. This framework may be applied across the lifespan. To date, however, empirical studies addressing ASC have focused predominantly on childhood samples. In this review, we examine empirical evidence relevant to ASC in adolescence in comparison with childhood. We then discuss future directions that may promote understanding of Affective Social Competence among adolescent samples: the use of person‐oriented analyses to integrate all three components of ASC; consideration of understudied social contexts that may influence and be influenced by ASC; and use of microgenetic designs to examine growth across transitions during early, middle, and late adolescence.

Longitudinal Patterns in Parent and Friend Emotion Socialization: Associations With Adolescent Emotion Regulation

“…The use of parent, friend, or observer ratings would also provide more comprehensive measurement. Finally, we recommend future research examining responses of other important socializers in adolescence, such as romantic partners, mentors or coaches, and employers (Booker & Dunsmore, ). As adolescents enter more complex and disparate social contexts, display rules for negative emotions and emerging socialization influences may enhance or contradict messages sent by parents and friends.…”

“…Third, adolescents become more skilled at reading social cues in other's verbal and nonverbal feedback as they develop. Therefore, parents’ and friends’ responses may be perceived differently by adolescents over time as adolescents become more skillful at deciphering parents and friends’ responses (Booker & Dunsmore, ).…”

“…Third, adolescents become more skilled at reading social cues in other's verbal and nonverbal feedback as they develop. Therefore, parents' and friends' responses may be perceived differently by adolescents over time as adolescents become more skillful at deciphering parents and friends' responses (Booker & Dunsmore, 2017). Although extant longitudinal research is slim, one study suggests that parents are stable over time in magnifying and punishing of adolescents' negative emotions, but more variable in their reward of adolescents' negative emotions (Mazursky-Horowitz et al, 2015).…”

Uncovering the Moderating Role of Grit and Gender in the Association between Teacher Autonomy Support and Social Competence among Chinese Undergraduate Students

“…To investigate the correlates of social competence, we refer to the socioecological framework [ 11 ]. This is because social competence is an ecological phenomenon, which has been developed over time as a consequence of multiple interactions across distinct contexts [ 12 , 13 ]. Hence, this framework would provide a comprehensive understanding of the contextual and individual factors associated with social competence.…”

Autoconcepto, Actividad Física Y Sustancias Nocivas: Un Modelo De Ecuaciones Estructurales

“…La adolescencia es un periodo de transición entre la niñez y la adultez, produciéndose multitud de cambios a nivel físico, cognitivo y social, como el desarrollo de los caracteres sexuales o la adquisición del rol adulto (Booker y Dunsmore, 2017). La etapa adolescente supone un cambio radical en el estilo de vida de la persona, produciéndose cambios en las relaciones sociales y en su estilo de vida, culminando esto con el abandono del hogar familiar, la inserción en el mercado laboral o el inicio de estudios superiores (Jolliffe, Farrington, Piquero, MacLeod y van de Weijer, 2017).…”