Competência social na formação do psicólogo

Abstract

This study aimed to evalue some dimensions of the social competence among students from first and last stages of a course of Psychology in order to verify if possible deficits were increased or surpassed along the academic graduation. It was applyed a questionnaire with 13 social interaction critical situations for wich the student would have to indicate: the ocorrence degree in her (his) experience, the discomfort degree, the performing or not performing a response indicative of social competence, suggested to the situation, and the satisfaction or no satisfaction with the performed:response. The results showed a large pattern of similarities and a quite restricted pattern of differences in all evalued dimensions, except in discomfort, with implications to research and to the fitness of curriculum of Psychology concerning the needs of student background.