Students’ Social Competence Impact On The Willingness To Respond Against Social Dangerousness

Abstract

The article deals with the research results obtained from students who pursue vocational secondary studies. It includes the effect of structural components of social competence on young people’s readiness to respond against social dangerousness. At the first stage of sociological research, the authors hold a survey to determine young people’s attitude to various aspects of socially behavioural risks and readiness to counter them. The second stage involves an impact analysis of social competence structural components on the opposition to socially dangerous behaviour. The study shows that 74% of 212 students are ready to resist this type of danger. Factor analysis finds that the willingness to resist is influenced by all structural components of social competence. However, the social-psychological component is represented by the effect of resilience, activity, conflict resistance, suggestibility, and communicative tolerance. A low level of communication control is caused by students’ failure to refer their response to others’ behaviour. It gives rise to inadequate patterns of students’ behaviour in a dangerous situation, the choice of inflexible solutions. Searching for a corresponding response to danger is difficult because of the low level of a cognitive component, despite that someone else's, socially troubled, is negatively taken by respondents. The axiological component outlooks regulatory function of behaviour in case of social danger. Factor analysis of the internal patterns of value orientations reveals students’ tendency to culture-universal values, embodying the habit to the social environment, someone else’s self-image. It explains students’ tolerant perception of people around and affects the opposition to extremism.