The analyzing of elementary school students' social skills and their social emotional learning levels according to some variables

Journal Title: Journal of Human Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 14, Issue 1

Abstract

Social skills and emotional intelligence are terms which are related closely with each other and determine on human behaviors,  which arranger people's relations with each other. As using this important relation as a base, this research has been made to analyze whether elementary school students' social skills and social emotional learning levels reflect a significant difference by variables such as gender, age, number of siblings,  which the person is in order of siblings,  educational case and professions of mother - father,  whether there is migration in family or not. This research, is a descriptive study. A sampling group which is the most accessible and which will provide maximum saving, and the proper sampling method which provides an opportunity to work have been used. Based on this purpose 136 4th grade elementary school students have participated in the research. On the study,  social skill scale and social emotional learning scale have been used in terms of determining on elementary school's forth grade students' social skills level and social emotional learning level. Data has been analyzed,  using statistic analyses (Mann-Whitney Test, Kruskal-Wallis Test) which are not parametric from SPSS 23 program. As a result of the research,  it has been determined that students' social skills' level changes in significant level by variables of age, the situation on whether there is a migration in family or not and number of sibling. On the other hand, when results of the study are examined on the base of social emotional learning,  students who have gone on the same class education and who are ten years old have got higher social emotional learning points than those who are nine years old;  students who have lived in Izmir for ten years or more than ten years have got higher social emotional learning points at significant rate than those who have lived in Izmir for nine years or shorter. It has been determined that there is a positive and significant relation at high rate between students' social skills' points and their social emotional learning level.

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Hadiye Küçükkaragöz, Fatma Erdoğan

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Hadiye Küçükkaragöz, Fatma Erdoğan (2017). The analyzing of elementary school students' social skills and their social emotional learning levels according to some variables. Journal of Human Sciences, 14(1), 39-48. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-644261