Habilidades sociales y rendimiento académico en estudiantes de dos Facultades de la Universidad Cuenca

Abstract

The present study was proposed to determine if there is a correlation between social skills and academic performance in students of two faculties of the University of Cuenca, it handled a quantitative approach, of non-experimental type, whose scope was framed within the correlational. This research was carried out in students of the Faculties of Engineering and Dentistry enrolled in the period September 2017 - February 2018, for the collection of information was used the Scale of Social Skills of Elena Gismero and the general average of the students of the aforementioned cycle, and for data processing we used the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences "SPSS" and Microsoft Excel 2010. The results revealed that the investigated individuals have an adequate performance in their behavior, which is evidenced by feelings, attitudes, desires, opinions or rights to respond to a specific situation, the results obtained determined the nonexistence of low levels in social skills among the individuals investigated.