Mothers' social skills and their involvement with children: a correlacional study

Abstract

This study aimed to identify and to analyze the mother's social skills repertoire and their involvement with their children. Twenty-two mothers, whose children were in the first grade, participated in this study. They completed the Mother's Evaluation of Family Interaction Quality questionnaire and Social Skills Inventory (IHS-Del-Prette). The participants reported good social skills repertoire , which was positively correlated to the interaction scales between the mothers and their children. These results suggest the importance of the mother's social skills repertoire on involvement with their children and, in case of deficits, specific programs focused on the motherly social skills improvement would be necessary.

social skills; social skills educative; mother child relations