title: Social Information Processing in Deaf Adolescents.
abstract: The goal of this study was to compare the processing of social information in deaf and hearing adolescents. A task was developed to assess social information processing (SIP) skills of deaf adolescents based on Crick and Dodge's (1994; A review and reformulation of social information-processing mechanisms in children's social adjustment. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 74-101) reformulated six-stage model. It consisted of a structured interview after watching 18 scenes of situations depicting participation in a peer group or provocations by peers. Participants included 32 deaf and 20 hearing adolescents and young adults aged between 13 and 21 years. Deaf adolescents and adults had lower scores than hearing participants in all the steps of the SIP model (coding, interpretation, goal formulation, response generation, response decision, and representation). However, deaf girls and women had better scores on social adjustment and on some SIP skills than deaf male participants.
authors.affiliation: Equipo de Orientación Educativa de Castilleja (Educational Counselling Team of Castilleja) and.
authors.forename: Jesús
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Torres
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Sevilla.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Saldaña
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Sevilla ireyes@us.es.
authors.forename: Isabel R
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Ortiz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities; D012917:Social Adjustment