Habilidades sociais em escolares de Belém e suas características pessoais e fatores contextuais

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate social and school skills of Belém students by connecting them to personal and contextual variables. Such purpose has directed the three studies which are part of this dissertation. The first one has connected social skills medium to children biosocial demographic features. The second one, on the other hand, has associated social skills medium to the social economic and demographic conditions of the evaluated family children, besides aspects of parent’s engagement over their children school life. The third one has compared two groups of 10 children who had low and high medium of social skills in relation to personal features (relationships and behavior), contextual activities, and school aspects describing and also analyzing the similiarities and differences among them, according to a theorical focus of Human Development Bioecology. The studies results have shown that evaluated children have an appropriate repertory of social skills with social skills reactions medium higher than non skills medium. Some personal, familiar, contextual and school features of sample, mainly activities done in this context are related to socially skills responses. There were no significant associations among social economic, social demographic and familiar aspects , nor parents engagement in their children school activities, with social skills medium. To conclude, social skills may be influenced by personal aspects, and that familiar relationship quality and activities that provide children development contribute to an adequate repertory of social skills. This kind of study may direct other ones to children intervention in similar contexts to this sample and increase knowledge over this research area and students of Belém city when including other aspects, such as processual and temporarily in specific contexts, showing as an important challenge to human development researchers nowdays.