Social Competences In Pre-Service Teachers In The Context of Selected Personality Traits

Social competences are skills that significantly affect the course of interpersonal interactions and the quality of the communication process. The teacher is required to be a professional, who has mastery not only of the teaching profession, but also of a broad repertoire of social competences. The objective of the paper is to analyse the social competences in pre-service teachers and their correlations with personality traits. The research sample consisted of 407 university students, of whom 114 were male and 293 were female. The two questionnaires were used: The Item Personality Inventory (TIPI; Gosling), Social Competence Inventory (SCI; Kanning). The results of the correlation analysis suggest a strong relationship between emotional stability of the TIPI questionnaire and the self-control scale of the SCI questionnaire (r=0.682). The significance of adopting social competences by the teacher and the students is evidenced by the fact that this phenomenon is defined in curricular documents.