Preliminary communication
HEADMASTER‘S SOCIAL COMPETENCE IN PRIMARY AND SECUNDARY SCHOOL
Marija Janković
; OŠ Hugo Badalić, Slavonski Brod
Abstract
The ability to communicate and interact effectively with other people
is associated with a number of positive psychological and social consequences. This ability has variously been referred to as social skill, comunication competence, or social competence (Riggio, 1986, Spitzberg, 1987). Social competence includes functions like the understanding of their people’s feelings, the recognising of social clues, the antipation and judgement of consequences of social behaviour as well as the capability to actively exchange
thoughts with other people.
This study used Social Skills Inventory (SSI) (designed by Riggio, 1986) to measure different aspects of communication skills. This inventory assesses emotional expressivity, emotional sensitivity and emotional control.
The SSI is positively and significantly associated with depth of social networks (Riggio, 1986), empathy (Riggio, Tucker and Coffaro, 1989), available social support (Riggio, Watring and Throckmorton, 1993), approachability and self- confidence (Jurcova and Stubova, 1999), conversational skills (Miczo, Segrin and Allspach, 2001), judges’ ratings of attractiveness (Riggio, Widaman, Tucker and Salinas, 1991) and accuracy of emotional expression (Tucker and
Riggio, 1988).
A short form of the SSI (Riggio and Canary, 2003) compresed
of 30 items, was used for this investigation and had a reliability of .77. Items were measured using a five-point Likert scale, with higher scores indicatng a high level of social skills. Social competence is the ability to perform a certain task within a social context and implies knowledge as well as experience, attitudes and skills.
A “lack of” competence can be countered with training, change of workplace or shange of environment.
The aim of this study was to explore the role of social competence on the sex and occupation of a school principle (primary and secondary school principle). Results show that primary and secondary principles have social competence but there is no difference in social competence between female and male principles and their occupation.
There was no specific study I could cite so this one is used to test hypothesis and built data.
Keywords
Sociall skill/social competence; primary/secondary school principal; leader; sex/gender; occupation; SSI
Hrčak ID:
103386
URI
Publication date:
17.12.2012.
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