Indicadores Críticos para Avaliação de Habilidades Sociais Educativas em Situações Interpessoais Difíceis / Critical Indicators for Assessing Educational Social Skills in Difficult Interpersonal Situations

Resumo No processo ensino-aprendizagem, a sala de aula é afetada por conflitos interpessoais. Isso exige que o professor lide com situações difíceis durante grande parte do tempo de aula. Este estudo visou construir indicadores de criticidade associando o grau de desconforto emocional, a frequência e a probabilidade de ocorrência de habilidades sociais educativas diante de situações interpessoais consideradas difíceis em sala de aula. Participaram 200 professores do Ensino Fundamental de escolas públicas e privadas. O inventário contou com 19 itens. Foram encontradas sete situações pouco críticas, oito moderadas e quatro muito críticas. Esses resultados podem levar à discussão de como os professores lidam com essas situações e o quanto são capacitados a exercer sua profissão com competência social.

Abstract During the teaching-learning process, the classroom is affected by interpersonal conflicts. This requires the teacher to deal with difficult situations for much of the class time. In this context, this study aimed to construct indicators of criticality by associating frequency of occurrence, degree of emotional discomfort and probability of occurrence of educational social skills in the face of interpersonal situations considered difficult to class. 200 teachers from public and private schools attended. The inventory had 19 items. There were seven uncritical situations, eight moderate and four very critical. These results may lead to a discussion of how teachers deal with these situations and how well they are able to exercise their profession with social competence.

Construction and validity evidence of a scale for coping with difficult social academic interpersonal situations

Abstract The aim of this study was to develop a scale to investigate the ways of coping with interpersonal situations considered difficult in the Brazilian university context. The items were based on the results of a study previously obtained in a focus group with university students. The first steps of the study were the analysis of judges and the investigation of the semantic validity. After these steps, a total of 1366 (female = 74.9%) students from public and private institutions participated in the study. The study followed the steps design of the items, development of the first version of the instrument, and initial tests of validity (content validity and internal consistency). The results of the exploratory factor analysis indicated the maintenance of 26 items, distributed in four factors: focus on emotion (α = 0.73), focus on social support (α = 0.81), focus on religious coping (α = 0.83), and focus on the problem (α = 0.70). The final scale solution was considered satisfactory for the proposed instrument, with consistency for the application in other studies and investigations that evaluate the coping strategies of students in situations considered difficult in the university.