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LD, Interpsonal Understanding, and Social Behavior in the Classroom

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Miriam Faust

Bar-Ilan University

Shahar Lipshitz

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Shlomo Shalhav

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

This study used Baron and Kenny's (1986) criteria for mediation to investigate the extent to which interpersonal understanding mediates the relation between learning disabilities (LD) and social adaptation in the classroom. Twenty-two children with and 22 children without a diagnosis of LD completed a semistructured developmental dinical interview measure of interpersonal understanding. They were also rated by their fourth- and fifth-grade teachers on a measure of sodal adaptation in the classroom. Interpersonal understanding and social adaptation in the classroom were found to be positively correlated. Children with LD exhibited less interpersonal understanding and sodal adaptation. Although this group difference on social adaptation was greatly reduced when interpersonal understanding was statistically controlled, it remained statistically significant. These results suggest that reduced social adaptation in the classroom and lower interpersonal understanding are both associated with a diagnosis of LD. However, they do not conclusively support the claim that interpersonal understanding mediates the relation between LD and social adaptation. Thus, whether the social difficulties of people with LD stem from the same complex phenomena that produce these people's learning problems remains an open question.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 32, No. 3, 248-255 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/002221949903200306


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