A correlational study of social skills to personality traits

The purpose of this study was to investigate de correlation of social skills to personality traits by the big five factors model. The Ss were 189 undergraduates, 41 men and 148 women, from 18 to 59 ys. old (mean 26,3 ys. old), freshmen of the Literature, History, Psychology, Pedagogy, and Biology courses. The instruments were the Social Skills Inventory, which informs about (a) confront with risk, (b) self-affirmation on the positive affect expression, (c) conversation and social easiness, (d) self-exposure to strangers and new situations, and (e) self-control of aggressiveness in aversive situations; and an Personality Inventory which informs about the big five factors: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. The confront with risk variance was explained by the extraversion and openness; self-affirmation on the positive affect expression, by agreeableness and emotional balance; conversation and social nimbleness, by the equality in all personality factors; self-exposure to strangers and new situations, by extraversion and emotional balance, and self-control of aggressiveness in aversive situations, by agreeableness.