Peculiarities of Social Skills in Sporting and Non - Sporting Schoolchildrens Cover Image

Sportuojančių ir nesportuojančių mokinių socialinių įgūdžių ypatumai
Peculiarities of Social Skills in Sporting and Non - Sporting Schoolchildrens

Author(s): Audronė Dumčienė, Šarūnas Šniras, Almantas Dumbliauskas
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: social skills; sporting and non-sporting schoolchildren's; socialization.

Summary/Abstract: The present paper is to provide the analyses of the research problem how sport stimulates the formation of social skills, expands or limits personai ability to accept independent decisions, to express personai views and to say what you feel. The topicality of the work is based on the fact that research works commonly analyze the peculiarities of training sočiai skills in sporting and non-spordng children's in the context of sočiai training. The goal of our work is to reveal the peculiarities of sočiai sills in sporting and non-sporting schoolchildren's. The work applied an adapted version of sočiai skills ąuestionnaire and an observation method. The investigation was carried out at Kaunas Silainiai high school and tested 88 sporting and 86 non-sporting schoolchildren's agingfrom 13 to 15. The comparison of research results regarding sporting and non-sporting schoolchildren's determined that sporting and non-sporting children's statistically reliably differ according to the need to train the following social skills: to knowoneself (p < 0,05), to communicate and co-operate (p < 0,05), to express personai opinion (p < 0,05); the need of sporting children's to train sočiai skills is higher than the one of non-sporting children's. Research results have proved that statistically reliably (p < 0,05) differs the level of sporting and non-sporting children's aging from 13 to 15 in terms of the following sočiai skills: ability to know oneself, ability to communicate and co-operate, ability to express personai opinion, ability to ask for help, i.e. the level of sporting children's is higher.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 85
  • Page Range: 110-115
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Lithuanian