Social competences in pre-service teachers in the context of selected personality traits

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Social competences in pre-service teachers in the context of selected personality traits

Original language description

Social competences are skills that significantly affect the course of interpersonal interactions and the quality of the communication process. It is well known that social competences develop throughout life and can be learned to a certain extent, not only in childhood but also in adulthood. The teacher is required to be a professional, who has mastery not only of the teaching profession including didactic, educational and psychological skills, but also of a broad repertoire of social competences. The objective of the present paper is to map and analyse the existing social competences in pre-service teachers and their correlations with personality traits. The research sample consisted of 407 university students aged 19-54 years (average age = 26.38; SD = 7.09, range 19-54), of whom 114 were male and 293 were female. The data were obtained by means of two questionnaires: The Item Personality Inventory (TIPI; Gosling) based on the trait concept of the Big Five; Social Competence Inventory (SCI; Kanning) consisting of 4 scales aimed at social orientation, offensiveness, self-control and reflexibility. Data processing was conducted by means of the following statistical procedures: correlation analysis, degree of explained variance (r2), Fisher’s transformation, and test of interference. The results of the correlation analysis concerning the entire research sample suggest a strong relationship between emotional stability of the TIPI questionnaire and the self-control scale of the SCI questionnaire (r=0.682), and a medium relationship between extraversion and offensiveness (r=0.468), conscientiousness and social orientation (r=0.305), emotional stability and social orientation (r=0.308), emotional stability and offensiveness (r=0.412), and openness to new experiences and offensiveness (r=0.428). In relation to gender, a strong relationship was observed between emotional stability and self-control in men (r=0.662) as well as in women (r=0.668). Emotional stability has a medium relationship with social orientation (men, r=0.388; women, r=0.312) and offensiveness (men, r=0.379; women r=0.421). It appears that personality factors play a role in psychosocial competence in both genders; the degree of explained variance reaches 43.82% in men and 47.33% in women. The issue of social competences is a relatively extensively analysed issue. The significance of adopting social competences by the teacher and the students is evidenced by the fact that this phenomenon is defined in curricular documents.

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

ICLEL 18 Conference Proceeding Book

ISBN

978-605-66495-3-0

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e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

475-482

Publisher name

Sakarya University

Place of publication

Sakarya

Event location

Wroclav, Poland

Event date

Jul 3, 2018

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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