The possibilities of children and younger teenagers’ social competence development in family and at school

Abstract

This article analyzes the peculiarities and expression of students’ social competence in late childhood and younger adolescence. The investigated children and adolescents’ conditions include: avoidance of close relationships, dependence, punctilious observance of the rules, or constant seeking for attention. Such states are rooted in children and adolescent personality’s structure and determining the adequate lifestyle, as well as the choice of adaptation instruments and emotional status in the new environment. In order to reveal the peculiarities of students’ social competence in late childhood, children with such dominating character features are being distinguished: reticence, pettiness, seeking for attention, dependency and harmonious character traits (without dominant traits). The social competence of younger teenage students is also evaluated within the interfaces of exploratory construct’s variables (popularity among classmates, self-esteem). In this article, the expression of student’s social competence in the aspect of development is compared.