Investigation of the relationship between preservice teachers' childhood traumas and social skill levels in terms of some variables

Damaging actions of emotional, social, physical and cognitive development can leave permanent traces in the individual's life. Abuse is also one of the issues to be addressed. Abuse of childhood and its aftermath can negatively affect social development and cause the individual to be deprived of social skills. In this study, it is aimed to investigate the relationship between preservice teachers' social skill levels and childhood traumas in terms of some variables. In the study group of the research, was conducted with the relational screening method of quantitative research methods, there are 628 preservice teachers who are in the first, second, third and fourth classes of Science Education, Classroom Education, Pre-School Education and Guidance-Psychological Counseling sections of the Education Faculty of Amasya University in the academic year 2016-2017. In the collection of data, "Personal Information Form" where demographic information is included "Childhood Trauma Scale Short Form" which determines levels of childhood abuse experiences and "Social Skills Inventory Short Form" used to measure social skills levels during adulthood were utilized. In the analysis of data, descriptive statistics (frequency, mean, standard deviation) independent sample t test, one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) for parametric data; Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test for nonparametric data; Tukey and LSD tests for complementary post-hoc techniques; Pearson Moments Correlation Coefficient for determining the relationship between the two scales was used. In the findings of the study, for preservice teachers; there were significant differences between childhood traumas and variables of gender, class, family income, number of siblings, birth order, and parental education status; there were significant differences between social skills and gender, department, class, family income and parent-child cohort variables; social skills and childhood abuse were negatively related which is not significant. At the end of the study, some suggestions were ordered based on the findings.