TITLE:
The Relationship between Social Skills and Sports Activities among Chinese College Students
AUTHORS:
Lu Lv, Kazushi Takami
KEYWORDS:
Social Skills, Sports Activities, Chinese College Students, Sports Club Members
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.4,
March
16,
2015
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to understand the current state of social
skills among Chinese student, especially focused on the students who
participated in sports clubs and took physical exercise regularly, and
subsequently conducted a new multi-index model further to explore the
relationship between social skills and sports activities. 3000 college students
were investigated by two scales named revised Chinese university-student social
skills inventor (RChUSSI) and the Chinese college students’ version of Buss-Perry
aggression questionnaire (CC-BPAQ), and resulted in 2543 (84.7%) samples
return. By
the help of analysis of variance and multivariate analysis of covariance, a
multi-index model was conducted and examined. This study reported that the
period of primary and secondary school might be the most productive years of
human achieving and training social skills. Taking sports activities
facilitated learning and improving social skills. Thus, primary and secondary
school students are encouraged to have sports activities, which are good for
their physical and mental health.