“…Sin ce social skills are basic elements for interpersonal relationships (Del Prette & Del Prette, 2001a) and relationship problems (Castro & Teixeira, 2013;Pascua-Cantarero, 2016) and social integration diffi culties (Pascua-Cantarero, 2016) may aggravate dissatisfaction with the college experience and lead to increased student drop-out, it is believed that the participants in this study who exhibited a good, below-the-median and a defi cient repertoire of social skills might possibly be indicated for Social Skills Training (THS) programs, once their specifi c defi cits have been assessed. THS has been documented as an eff ective alternative for the interpersonal development of college students (Lima & Soares, 2015;Lopes, Dascanio, Ferreira, Del Prette, & Del Prette, 2017) and so it could reduce dropout rates in higher education, since a wellprepared repertoire of social skills can facilitate college students' adaptation to higher education (Soares, Francischetto, Peçanha, Miranda, & Dutra, 2013;Soares et al, 2017).…”