“…Previous studies have found that school-age children are more socially skilled than preschool children (Berry & O'Connor, 2010;Bolsoni-Silva, Marturano, & Freiria, 2010;Konold, Jamison, Stanton-Chapman, & Rimm-Kaufman, 2010), who tend to present more behavior problems Karp, Serbin, Stack, & Schwartzman, 2004). However, when studying children in the 1 st to 4 th grade using a self-assessment test, Bandeira, Rocha, Freitas, Del Prette and Del Prette (2006a) reported that the older the child, the lower was their overall social skill score. These authors argued that these findings may be due to the child's self perception, rather than their repertoire of social skills.…”