Abstract

NOGUEIRA, Cátia Cristina de Carvalho; SOARES, Adriana Benevides; MONTEIRO, Marcia  and  MEDEIROS, Humberto Cláudio Passeri. Social Skills and Academic Expectation in Nursing Students. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.1, pp.99-118. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2020.50792.

The research evaluated and compared the social skills and academic expectations of nursing students and students from other courses in the area of health from first and last year. The study included 200 students, coming from a private institution, with beginners and graduating nursing and other health areas, with 78.5% (135) students were female and the majority 32.5% (65) belonged to the social class B2. The instruments used were the Social Skills Inventory, the Empathy Inventory and the Academic Engagement Questionnaire) - QEA in versions A and B. The nursing graduates presented better scores in social skills than the other student samples, better effective behavior in the Institutional Involvement and better use of the infrastructure available in the university for the accomplishment of academic activities. The study contributes with evidence on the relevance of the development of social skills for the professional performance of nurses in health care.

Keywords : social skills; academic expectations; college students; health.

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