THE EFFECT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE AND SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE ON COMMUNICATION SKILLS

In today's complex and rapidly growing world, communication between people is very important. People need effective communication skills to overcome the challenges they face in both their personal and business lives. However, the psychological state and social and emotional characteristics of the person are also important in communication. The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of the concepts of resilience and social and emotional competence on communication skills. The sample of the study consists of a total of 395 people, 163 women and 232 men, who were selected by the convenience sampling method among the students studying at the sports sciences faculty of a state university and participated voluntarily. "Brief Psychological Resilience Scale ", "Social-Emotional Competency Scale," and "Communication Skills Scale" were applied to the participants in order to collect personal information and data. While the Pearson Correlation test was used to determine the correlation level between the variables in the data accepted as having a normal distribution, the linear regression test was used to determine the effect status. Statistically significant findings were obtained as a result of the relationship analysis between students' social and emotional competence, psychological resilience, and communication skills. Accordingly, it was determined that the relations between all variables were positive. Another finding is that the effect of social/emotional competence and psychological resilience of the students participating in the research on their communication skills was found to be statistically significant (p<0.05). Psychological resilience and social/emotional competence are associated with the communication skills of students studying sports sciences. At the same time, we can say that they are effective. In other words, we can say that the participants with high psychological resilience and social and emotional competence will have high communication skills, in line with the findings.