Abstract

MAIA, Regina Célia Cavalcante; SOARES, Adriana Benevides  and  VICTORIA, Mara Sizino da. Social Skills and general intelligence results of teachers working with elementary and kindergarten schools. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2009, vol.9, n.2. ISSN 1808-4281.

This study has compared social skills from teachers teaching in elementary and kindergarten in schools at the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has also verified correlations between social skills and intelligence. According to Del Prette and Del Prette (2003) social skills must be part of the educational formation in order to improve student's cooperation and integration abilities. In this sense, 24 teachers working on elementary school and 24 teachers working on kindergarten have participated in our experiment. Two instruments were used:  The IHS - Inventário de Habilidades Sociais (Del Prette; Del Prette, 2001a) and Raven's Matrices (RAVEN, 1997). The statistic analyses demonstrated that there is an important difference between the two groups concerning their social skills. The teachers from kindergarten have higher social skills, as it is found at the literature about this field. The correlations between social skills and intelligence have not shown significance through the Pearson Linear Correlation Test, dissociating intellectual skills from social skills.

Keywords : Social skills; General intelligence.

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