The dimensions of social skills of Turkish preadolescents as perceived by students, teachers, and parents

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2003-09-01

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Sümer, Zeynep

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The purpose of this study was twofold: to determine the dimensions of social skills of Turkish preadolescents as perceived by students, teachers and parents, and to document the psychometric procedures used to design and develop the social skills rating instrument and its scales. The sample consisted of 382 (170 females and 212 males) 6th and 7th grade level students, their parents and teachers from 4 public primary schools in different regions of Ankara. The Social Skills Rating Scale- Student, Teacher, and Parent Forms, which were developed and pilot tested by the researcher, used to collect the data. Three separate principal components analyses with varimax rotation were employed to the data. The results revealed that the dimensions �academic, emotion, assertion, and conflict management-appeared in the three forms seem to be relevant to the construct of social skill, are mostly supported by the literature, and reflect age appropriate behavioral content. Furthermore, the analyses have also demonstrated that the Social Skills Rating Scale-Student, Teacher, and Parent Forms appear to have substantial utility in assessing 6th and 7th grade level Turkish primary school students� social skills.

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http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00003540.htm
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/85942

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Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research

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Z. Sümer, “The dimensions of social skills of Turkish preadolescents as perceived by students, teachers, and parents,” Hamburg, Almanya, 2003, p. 1, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00003540.htm.