Abstract

SANTOS, Giselle Glória Balbino dos; SOARES, Adriana Benevides  and  RAFAEL. Effects of social skills training on school climate. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.2, pp. 1-22. ISSN 1516-3687.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1980-6906/ePTPPE13553.

Studies point out that the development of social skills can interfere in the students' behavior and consequently in the environment, favoring the school climate and the acquisition of knowledge. Thus, this research aimed to identify the effects of a Social Skills Training (SST) on the school climate. 21 students from the 9th grade of Elementary School participated (11 from the Experimental group and 10 from the Control group) aged between 14 and 16 years old (MD = 14.38; SD = 1.07). The instruments used were: Inventory of Social Skills for Adolescents and the Climate Scale of the Delaware Student School. Ten sessions were held, with weekly meetings of 50 minutes. For data analysis, the following tests were used: Spearman's rô, Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney for independent samples. There were positive correlations, from moderate to strong, between the factors of social skills and the dimensions of the climate for all participants in the intervention group. In the control group, negative and positive correlations were identified.

Keywords : social skills; school climate; SST; students; elementary school.

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