U18, U21 and seniors in the category of skiers and non-sports individuals comparison of social skills level

The aim of this study is to compare the social skill levels of individuals who do ski sports with licensed individuals and to investigate the effect of ski sport on social skills. In this study, sample selection was made by using proportional cluster sampling method. In this study, social skill levels between individuals who regularly ski and those who do not. Lisans Social Skills Inventory ve developed by Riggio (1986) and adapted to Turkish by Yüksel (1988) was applied to 104 licensed skiers and 98 individuals who did not do any sport in Sarıkamış district of Kars. In the case of parametric data set, t-test and Anova, in case of nonparametric Mann Whitney-U, Kruskal-Wallis were applied. In the results of working; It was found that skiers had higher social skills than non skiers, and this difference was found to be different with the year of sport and duration of sport.