Social Skills According to Age and Gender among Adolescents from a Public School from Arequipa

Abstract

The ability to establish satisfactory interpersonal relationships and solve social and emotional problems implies having basic, advanced and instrumental social skills for adolescents, which is necessary to investigate and analyze to see if there are differences respect to age and sex. In order to provide empirical evidence in this regard, 230 students from the first to the fifth grade of secondary education, whose ages are 12 to 17 years, of both sexes, of a public educational institution in the city of Arequipa, were evaluated. The instrument used was Goldstein's Social Skills Checklist. The results indicate an average level of social skills and statistically significant differences of small TE in the planning dimension, where women have higher scores than men. Respect to age, weak positive significant correlations were obtained with the first social skills (basic social skills) and with social skills in general.