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- Title
MOKSLEIVIŲ SOCIALINĖS KOMPETENCIJOS UGDYMO GALIMYBĖS.
- Authors
Vyšniauskytė-Rimkienė, Jorūnė
- Abstract
The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the possibilities of social skills' training on social competence in school children. The studied consisted of 50 pupils of the seventh grade (13,0 ± 0,03) - 25 adolescents in each - experimental and control groups. Procedure of sociometric measurement [3]; social skills questionnaire, the questionnaire of Revised Class Play (RCP, 1985) and M. Rosenberg's (1965) scale of self-esteem were applied during the study to measure social competence in experimental and control groups. The experimental group participated in social skills training program that included eight 45 minutes long, structural dames [7 et al.]. Educational influence on control group was not applied. The results of those who participated in the training program (experimental group) and those who did not (control group) were compared. The comparison show that adolescents, who belong to the experimental group experienced change tendencies in assessing their social skills. For example, adolescents from experimental group were able to better understand their emotions, to listen to others, and to solve problems. After the end of the educational experiment significant changes (p < 0,01) of evaluating the pupils' social skill to listen to others in the experimental group were estimated. There were no significant sociometric status's and peer reputation differences between the trained and the non-trained group. Though the results of the research show significant changes of adolescents' self-esteem. The hypothesis that pedagogical influence in the form of social skills training can provide opportunities to increase social competence among adolescents was proven. In the discussion some conclusions why there were small effects on social competence of adolescents are drawn and recommendations what can be effective in the social competence training are provided. An important notion is that the number of the participants is small and this complicates providing statistically significant results.
- Subjects
SOCIAL skills education; SOCIAL interaction in adolescence; SCHOOL children -- Social aspects; OCCUPATIONAL training; ASSESSMENT of education; EDUCATIONAL productivity; EDUCATIONAL psychology
- Publication
Pedagogy Studies / Pedagogika, 2007, Issue 86, p99
- ISSN
1392-0340
- Publication type
Article