PURPOSE:
to compare the repertoire of social skills of students of Journalism and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences.
METHODS:
189 students participated in this study, i.e., 89 students of Journalism (63 females and 26 males), aged between 18 and 28 years, and 100 students of speech, language and hearing sciences (96 females and 4 males) with ages varying between 18 and 31 years. The Social Skills Inventory was applied to all of them.
RESULTS:
speech, language and hearing sciences students demonstrated social skills rated as "good above average" for social communication skills (F1), civility (F2), empathy (F4), work (F5) and as "rather elaborate" for assertive coping skills (F3) and overall score. Journalism students presented were rated as "Good below average" for civility social skills (F2) and "Good above average " for social communication skills (F1), assertive coping (F3), empathy (F4), work (F5) and overall score. The results showed a statistically significant difference (p=0,001) in the social skills of civility (F2), work (F5) and overall score.
CONCLUSIONS:
the students of speech, language and hearing sciences performed better than the journalism students in the social skills of civility (F2), work (F5) and overall score.
Social Communication; Journalism; Students; Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
