Evaluating Social Skills of Female Athlete Students in Several Sports

Abstract

Social skills not only influencing interpersonal relationships and following acquisitive properties but also decreasing mental problems, psychological disorders and behavioral deviations through educational progress caused exercise to be tested as an educational subject in this study comparing impact of physical exercise on social skills in several sports. Therefore, this study compared social skills of female students participating in national championship competitions. The statistical population was comprised of 2500 high school students and 216 subjects were selected randomly. Two questionnaires were used in order to collect data: Personal Information Questionnaire and Social Skills Questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, independent t-test, and one-way ANOVA were used to analyze data. The results demonstrated that track and field athletes were better than others in 7 subscales of social skills, but swimming athletes had lower social skills. Furthermore, significant difference was between individual and team sport athletes. However, significant relationship between athletic background and social skills was not observed. Moreover, level of function had no effect on social skills. Based on the results of this study, the effect of team sports on social skills was higher than individual sports. Findings of previous research confirmed this issue. It seemed that lack of significant relationship between athletic background and social skills resulted from the homogeneity of the population and sample plus closeness of athletic background of the subjects to each other.

Keywords: Social skills, Team sports, Individual sports, Interpersonal relationships, Acquisitive properties