Verbal and Non-Verbal Social Skills of Primary School Students

Social skills are a factor that determines an individual's quality of social interactions with their surrounding. A high development level contributes to self-respect and self-esteem, which has positive impact on human relations and, consequently, the possibility self-affirmation in different areas life. The results research had examine verbal non-verbal primary school students presented this paper. sample number was 506 from six schools located city Tuzla. Taking sex as variable into consideration, there were 225 girls 281 boys, aged 11- 14. Regarding instruments, Inventory (Roggio Throckmorton 1986) applied, it comprised two areas: emotional-nonverbal, reflects skills, socio-verbal, sub-scales measure skills. During data processing, descriptive statistics utilized, obtained indicators lead conclusion show average both domains In context highest Scale sensitivity emotions whereas, area sensitivity. These enable insight current conditions regarding since they based students' self-evaluation, can serve basis for further should encompass teachers' parents' assessment.