Social skills in primary school children
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33010/ie_rie_rediech.v10i19.706Keywords:
behaviors, instruments, program, social skills, variablesAbstract
Social skills are a set of behaviors that allow the individuals feelings, desires and opinions according to the situation. This article presents a social skills program that takes place in a primary school to see the success of this implementation in a group of children at the age of 9 to 10 years-old. The variables that can influence the education aimed at social skills were analyzed with measures that help to evaluate behavior, violence and self-esteem. The instruments used were the Children Assertive Behavior Scale (CABS), the Questionnaire for the Evaluation of Self-Esteem in Childhood (EDINA) and the Questionnaire on Violence and Harassment (life in school). The results indicate that a change was achieved in the “violence” variable, since a decrease in the aggressive behaviors of the children was observed, after implementing the social skills program, using the influence of the values, mainly respect, to make participants not performed violence to their partners, as well as applying teamwork and no discrimination. It is important to note that the implementation of social skills programs, in children, helps to reduce aggressive behaviors and develop positive attitudes, throughout their growth in the educational, family and social environment.
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