A study on fourth grade students' social skills in terms of various variables

The aim of this study is to analyze the fourth grade primary school students' social skills according to various variables such as; gender, attending the school in a city or a village, parents' educational backgrounds, number of siblings, birth order, the perception of being loved by the other members of the family, the perception of being loved by the class teacher, participation to the classroom activities, time spend by watching television on daily basis, time spend by being connected to the internet and using computer on daily basis, being awarded when there is positive behavior at home or at school, and academic success. In this study scanning model is used. Applying simple random sampling method, 416 students from the city center and 124 students from the villages of the city have been contacted and Social Skills Scale and Personal Information Form has been applied to these students. Social Skills Scale used in this study has been developed by Kocayörük (2000). According to the results of the study, it has been seen that the fourth grade students', attending the school in a city center and a village, social skills levels are high. In this study it has been seen that there is a significant difference between the students' social skills score and the following variables; gender, attending the school in a city or a village, the perception of being loved by the other members of the family, the perception of being loved by the class teacher, participation to the classroom activities, being awarded when there is positive behavior at home or at school, time spend by watching television on daily basis, time spend by being connected to internet and using computer on daily basis. No significant difference has been found between the students' social skills score and the variables like parents' educational backgrounds, number of siblings, and birth order. It has been seen that there is a positively significant relation between the students' social skills levels and the students' academic success in Turkish, Maths, Science, Social Sciences, Music, Art, Game and Physical Activity.