PURPOSE:
to characterize the social skills of journalism students.
METHODS:
eighty-nine students of Journalism at UNESP/Bauru, 63 being females and 26 males, aged between 18 and 28 years, who responded to the Social Skills Inventory (SSI) - Del - Prette (Del Prette & Del Prette, 2001), participated in the study.
RESULTS:
the data showed that these journalism students scored "Good above average" for the overall score, the social communication skills (F1), assertive coping (F3), empathy (F4) and work (F5). The only factor to be rated as "Good below average" was the civility social skill (F2), which corresponds to expressing affection to friends, thanking people, introducing oneself, greeting and saying goodbye. There was no statistically significant difference among the five factors studied and genders regarding the results of the overall score and the scores of the five factors of the SSI - Del - Prette.
CONCLUSION:
journalism students present social skills which allow them to have healthy social interactions, however, these skills were not shown in their maximum potential. The social skills which needed greater aplomb were those of "civility" and "expressing positive and negative feelings".
Speech Pathology; Evaluation; Students; Journalism
