The Relationship between Anxiety and Social Competences in Pre-Service Teachers

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2018.1587" target="_blank" >10.21125/iceri.2018.1587</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Relationship between Anxiety and Social Competences in Pre-Service Teachers

Original language description

It is generally known that long-term exposure to both positive and negative stressful events may cause the development of anxiety. Anxiety is a natural emotion experienced by everybody. This emotion is not always negative because it is often helpful and has an adaptive effect. It should also be noted that anxiety is part of everybody&apos;s life; the problem is if the frequency and intensity of anxiety experiencing have an increasing tendency that starts to cause problems in everyday life. As the university students are initially meeting with more demanding requirements as gaining new knowledge, skills and experience, the academic environment can easily become a trigger for anxiety. The way in which students’ process and interpret the new experience is conditioned by the influences of the environment and its biological, innate dispositions. The gained emotional experiences associated with the academic success could negatively affect both students&apos; performance and their attitude to study in general as well they have a big impact on their social status and acceptance by the other classmates and teachers. Social competences are often described as skills whose level significantly influences the course and quality of communication. Social competences create the basis for socially competent behavior of an individual in specific situations. Competences therefore correspond to the potential that a person has, and which may not always be the same in different situations. The aim of our survey was to find out the possible relationship between the anxiety and the social competences of pre-service teachers. The data were obtained through two questionnaires: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Trait version and the Social Competence Inventory (ISK, Kanning) which consists of 4 scales focused on social orientation, offensive, self-control and reflexibility. The research sample consisted of 443 students (mean age = 24.59, SD = 6.05, range = 18-54 years), of which 88 were men (mean age = 26.66, SD = 6.96, range = 18 -51 years) and 355 females (mean age = 24.07, SD = 5.69, range = 19-54 years).The existence of a significant negative relationship was confirmed between the anxiety and all social competences except the scale reflexibility.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

ICERI2018 Proceedings

ISBN

978-84-09-05948-5

ISSN

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e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

2650-2654

Publisher name

International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED)

Place of publication

Madrid

Event location

Seville

Event date

Nov 12, 2018

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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