Abstract
It can be assumed that adapting to the university context requires both relationship skills and appropriate academic behaviors. This study was designed to identify the relationship between Social Skills, Academic Experiences and Academic Social Behaviors in students. Study participants were 289 university students from public and private institutions, ranging between 17 and 61 years. We used the Social Skills Inventory (IHS), the Academic Experiences Questionnaire (QVA-r), and the Inventory of Academic Social Behaviors (ICSA). It was identified that students who have academic maladaptive social behaviors also have deficits in social skills hindering their academic adaptation and that, socially acceptable skills are linked to not only personal variables, but also to the curricular and institutional ones.
Keywords:
social skills; social behaviors academic; college; higher education; academic adaptation