Abstract
The purpose of this study was to understand the current state of social skills among Chinese student, especially focused on the students who participated in sports clubs and took physical exercise regularly, and subsequently conducted a new multi-index model further to explore the relationship between social skills and sports activities. 3000 college students were investigated by two scales named revised Chinese university-student social skills inventor (RChUSSI) and the Chinese college students’ version of Buss-Perry aggression questionnaire (CC-BPAQ), and resulted in 2543 (84.7%) samples return. By the help of analysis of variance and multivariate analysis of covariance, a multi-index model was conducted and examined. This study reported that the period of primary and secondary school might be the most productive years of human achieving and training social skills. Taking sports activities facilitated learning and improving social skills. Thus, primary and secondary school students are encouraged to have sports activities, which are good for their physical and mental health.
Highlights
During the interaction and communication processing with others, we use some skills, both verbally and nonverbally, to help us to understand them, meet potential target, and develop many relative interpersonal behaviors
Referring to previous works by Aoki (2006) and Lv et al (2014), we developed a multi-index model to obtain the link between sports activities and social skills (Figure 1)
The Differences of Social Skills between SCMs, non-sports club members (NSCMs) and NMs with Gender The results of revised Chinese university-student social skills inventor (RChUSSI) scales were presented in Table 1, with stratification by gender, SCMs, NSCMs and NMs
Summary
During the interaction and communication processing with others, we use some skills, both verbally and nonverbally, to help us to understand them, meet potential target, and develop many relative interpersonal behaviors. We can understand and control our own emotion which enables us to have smooth and comfortable interactions with any one, on any topic. Takami skills (Aikawa, 2009). Social skills are entirely involved in our life throughout as life skills we use every day. Social skills have been suggested to be associated with juveniles’ aggression (Matsushita & Muramatu, 2006), bullying (Shimizu et al, 2009), school adjustment (Otsui, 2011), loneliness and psychology health (Aikawa et al, 1993) and even to occupational stress (Tanaka, 2009). It is significant to further study on social skills for relieving and resolving the tension appeared in interaction and many social problems
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