Bulletin of the Faculty of Letters, Hosei University

ジェンダー

対人行動

大学生

social skills

gender

interpersonal behaviors

university students

The purposes of the present study were to examine relationships between self-reports and others' evaluations of social skills, links between self-impression and social skills, and differences between cognition of social skills and social behavior. University students (JV= 56) completed a social-skills questionnaire, and then were divided into 2 groups: one group with students with higher-social skills and another group with lower-social skills. Each student was taken to the experimental room, where they met a stranger (same sex stranger or opposite sex stranger). The 2 individuals were asked to cooperate in planning a presentation by the experimenter. Their conversation was observed through a one-way mirror. The results showed that social behaviors were influenced by the interaction of gender and social skills. Female students especially be haved differently towards strangers according to their sex. Female students who reported superior social skills tended to open up to female strangers more than to male ones, but their responses were often brief and limited. Moreover, the male students who reported superior social skills evaluated themselves as having given more positive impression to the male strangers than the female strangers in the initial encounter. Therefore the gender was considered to be one of the most influential factor in the initial encounter.

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