Childhood Social Competence

The important social competence during childhood. Social competence is interrelated with other aspects of development, including emotion self-regulation and attention regulation (Blandon, Calkins et al.; Hill, Degnan et al. 2006). A young child’s ability to get along with other children contributes to all aspects of his development and may be "the single best childhood predictor of adult adaptation,” and according to W.W. Hartup. For example, “Children who are generally disliked, who are aggressive and disruptive, who are unable to sustain close relationships with other children, and who cannot establish a place for themselves in the peer culture are seriously at risk" (Hartup 1992). Quite a bit of research during the past