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Social skills have been found to be important in the determination of mental health over the life span of the individual, and there is growing evidence of their importance in physical health as well. However, little has been done in the analysis of the origins and causation of social skills. In particular, although it seems clear that temperament and social experience interact in the determination of social skills, there is little coherent theory about the specific aspects of temperament that are important, exactly how they interact with social experience, or the differential importance of the roles that they play in specific circumstances. Also, although it is clear that notions of emotional expression and communication are important to social skills—to the extent that social skills are sometimes measured in terms of emotion communication abilities—there is no detailed theoretical rationale explaining why this is the case.
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Buck, R. (1991). Temperament, Social Skills, and the Communication of Emotion. In: Gilbert, D.G., Connolly, J.J. (eds) Personality, Social Skills, and Psychopathology. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0635-9_4
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