The effect of socıal skılls traınıng program on the socıal skılls perceptıons of sports students

Resumen

The aim of this research is to reveal whether the social skills training program has an effect on the research of social skills levels of students participating in the social skills training program and studying sports. The study group of the research consists of a total of 30 students, 5 female and 25 male, actively studying at Manisa Celal Bayar University in 2019-2020. In this study, socio-demographic information form and a social skill scale developed by Tatar et al. (2018) were used as data collection tools for adults. In the implementation phase of the study, the social skills training program was applied to 15 students, who were determined as the experimental group, for 9 sessions for 9 weeks, once a week for 1.5-2 hours. The data of this study were analyzed with SPSS program version 22.0. In the analysis of the data, the t-test was applied for the comparison results of the number percentage distributions of independent variables, descriptive statistics for dependent variables, reliability and item analysis of the scales, the mean of the two independent variables of the group and the total scores of the two measurements made at different times, and the t-test was applied to determine the difference between the mean scores of the groups. It was found that there was a significant difference between the pre-test score distributions and post-test score distributions of the experimental group receiving social skills training, but there was no significant difference between the pre-test score distributions and post-test scores of the experimental group and the control group. In the 3rd and 6th month score distributions conducted for monitoring process, it was observed that the effect of the social skills training program continued.  It was found that there was no difference between the post-test scores of the experimental and control groups of the students studying sports in social skills training.