Comparative analysis between the social skills students of journalism and of speech pathology/Analise comparativa entre as habilidades sociais dos estudantes de jornalismo e de fonoaudiologia

Purpose: to compare the repertoire of social skills of students of Journalism and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. Methods: 189 students participated this study, 89 students of Journalism (63 women and 26 men), aged between 18 and 28 years , and 100 students of speech, language and hearing sciences (96 women and 4 men) with ages varying between 18 and 31 years. Who have responded to the Social Skills inventory. Results: students of speech, language and hearing sciences demonstrated social skills rated as "good above average" for social communication skills (F1), civility (F2), empathic (F4), work (F5) and "very elaborated" to assertive social skills (F3) and overall score . And the journalism students presented the rating of " Good below average" for social skills of civility (F2) and "Good above average " for social communication skills (F1), assertive (F3), empathic (F4), work (F5) and overall score .The results showed that there was statistically significant difference (p = 0,001) in in the social skills of civility (F2), work (F5) and overall score. Conclusions: It can be concluded that students of speech, language and hearing sciences showed better results than the journalism students to the social skills of civility (F2), work (F5) and overall score. KEYWORDS: Social Communication; Journalism; Students; Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Objetivo: comparar o repertorio de habilidades sociais de estudantes de Jornalismo e de Fonoaudiologia. Metodos: participaram desta pesquisa 189 estudantes, sendo 89 do curso de Jornalismo (63 mulheres e 26 homens), com idades variando entre de 18 e 28 anos, e 100 de curso de Fonoaudiologia (96 mulheres e 4 homens) com idades entre 18 a 31 anos. Todos os participantes responderam ao Inventario de Habilidades Sociais. Resultados: os estudantes de Fonoaudiologia demonstraram o repertorio de habilidades sociais classificado como "Bom acima da media" para habilidades sociais de comunicacao (F1), de civilidade (F2), empaticas (F4) e de trabalho (F5) e classificado como "Bastante elaborado" para as habilidades sociais assertivas de enfrentamento (F3) e escore global. Os estudantes de Jornalismo apresentaram a classificacao "Bom abaixo da media" para habilidades sociais de civilidade (F2) e "Bom acima da media" para as habilidades sociais de comunicacao (F1), assertivas de enfrentamento (F3), empaticas (F4), de trabalho (F5) e escore global. As analises estatisticas demonstraram diferenca estatisticamente significa