Social Competences of Secondary School Teachers and Their Self-Assessment

Abstract

Modern schools place high demands on teachers in terms of broadly understood professional preparation, which is supported not only by knowledge of what and how to teach, but also by social competences manifested by interpersonal skills, enabling effective teaching and upbringing of children and adolescents. These competences are strongly conditioned by personality traits. The article takes into account self-esteem as a correlate of social competences of secondary school teachers, which is an attitude towards oneself, especially towards one’s own capabilities and other socially valuable features. Therefore, the aim of the research was to determine the relationship between the social competences of the surveyed teachers, their profiles and self-esteem. To obtain answers to the research problems, the PROKOS Questionnaire and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (SES) were used. The obtained results allowed us to confirm the working hypothesis about the relationship between the presented variables. There were positive correlations both between the level of self-esteem of the surveyed teachers and the overall result of their social competences, as well as all the analyzed profiles of these competences.