Accidental Events Perspective and Social Skills of Teacher Trainees with Varied Levels of sSelf-assessment

Abstract

The research was conducted among 244 teacher trainees, including 222 women and 22 men. The respondents’ ages ranged between 21 and 46, with the average age of 25.29. The research participants were students of pedagogy, English studies, pre-school and early-school pedagogy from three higher education institutions, namely: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Higher School of Economy and Innovation in Lublin and State Vocational School in Chełm. The employed research tools were the scale of response to accidental events (SBUPZ – SarzyńskaMazurek), the questionnaire of social skills (KUS – Goldstein) and self-assessment scale (SES – Rosenberg). A particular structure of relationships between various variables (dependent variable of accidental events perspective, independent variable of social skills and moderating self- -assessment) was shown. Those which are essential as emerging from empirical results were highlighted. Relationship characteristics can be considered as autonomous conclusions.