Relationship between social skills, stress, age, sex, school type and school grade in adolescents

Abstract

During adolescence many changes occur in adolescent life. They have to develop social skills, behaviors that composes the repertoire of an individual to respond the social demands adequately. They face some situations that can cause stress, which is the reaction of the body to restore its balance after going through stressor situation. The present study aimed to investigate the correlation of social skills and stress variables: sex, age, type of school attended and grade. For this was used Psychological tests ESA (Stress Scale for Adolescents) and IHSA-Del-Prette(Inventory of Social Skills for Adolescents). The obtained results permit to conclude that there is a correlation between stress and the variables gender, age and type of school attended, as well as between the emission of social skills and the type of school attended. The hypothesis that the female students had more social skills than the students was not confirmed, nor it was confirmed that men have more difficulties in issuing the answers than women.

Keywords:
social skills; stress; teenagers; gender; school type