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SOME FEATURES OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION PROCESS AT PREADOLESCENTS WITH MENTAL DEFICIENCIES
SOME FEATURES OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION PROCESS AT PREADOLESCENTS WITH MENTAL DEFICIENCIES

Author(s): Roxana Urea
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: mental deficiencies; social communication; social conversation.

Summary/Abstract: During his entire life, a people have a lot of social relationships, based of the social communication process. The social communication is a form of total communication process and has specific manifestations related to ages, gender, social experience, etc. Therefore, I have made an investigation, on 40 Romanian preadolescents with mental deficiencies. Our investigation has had the following goal: to reveal some features of social communication process at preadolescents with mental deficiencies. The psychodiagnosis instruments that have been used on this research are: The Social Conversation Questionnaire that has been created for Romanian mental deficiencies pupils by R. Urea in 2008, The Zazzo test of similarities, The verbal associations test. The results that came through have revealed at people with mental deficiencies some features of, of social conversation level, of verbal functional activism, of flexibility of social communication. Our conclusions allowed us to create an important set of psychological test that can be use in differential psychodiagnosis process.

  • Issue Year: 55/2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 25-31
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English