Publicación:

Habilidades sociales y promedio académico en adolescentes universitarios de ciencias administrativas, contables y comercio internacional

Resumen

Stay at the university of new students raises new challenges and behaviors related to their academic commitment and your social life, both novel and complex. Objective. This research aimed to study the relationship between the average scores obtained by college teenagers from a private university and social skills. Methodology. The population consisted of 908 students Programs Administration, Accounting and International Business, a private university of the Colombian Caribbean coast, from which a purposive sample of 100 students, corresponding to 9.1% of the population was taken, aged 15 to 21 years, mean 18.4 and DT 1.49, women (50%) and men (50%). They were administered the Social Skills Scale (EHS) of Gismero (2002), consisting of 33 items, validated for this study presenting p <0.05 and Cronbach alpha of .83. Academic Average was obtained from the database of the Office of Admissions of the participating institution. Statistical analysis was done using descriptive statistics, Spearman Rho coefficient for nonparametric correlations and chi square. Results. It was found that only 40% of Directors, 5% and 40% Trade Accounts have or exhibit good development of their social skills, but 38% have high average grades. Conclusions. Poorly developed social skills in most of the participants is evident, even if their grades are high. Only significant correlations between some social skills with gender and grade point average were found. Recommendations. Training Programs develop social skills among adolescents university entrants and new research.