Engineering Students' Interpersonal Skills Attributed To The Characteristics Of The Study

The society we live in is a network consisted of various kinds of complicated interpersonal relations. To college students, the development of interpersonal competence is a important part of students' socialization because it is quite necessary not only for campus life but also for their onward life. In some sense, interpersonal competence is the comprehensive reflection of student' social adaptability.Many science and engineering majors of universities of technology have various problems in interpersonal relations because they have few opportunities to socialize esp. with the opposite sex caused by heavy study load. This dissertation, therefore, is targeted at students' interpersonal communication status in universities of technology and its relative characteristics in attribution, so as to work out valuable solution to the problem.250 sophomores and juniors of Anhui University of Technology were tested by a scale designed on interpersonal competence , from which we have got 238 effective questionnaires. 14 factors are extracted through factor analysis and 4 evaluation dimensions were extracted from these 14 factors. And also, MMCS was adopted to analyze relative attributive characteristics in interpersonal competence. Based on the results of the survey, research was made on the status and attributive characteristics in interpersonal competence of students in universities of technology, with emphasis laid on the comparisons between male and female students, art and engineering majors, sophomores and juniors, students from countryside and those from cities. Relative analyses were also conducted on the attributive characteristics of students with different competence level. The results suggested:1. in terms of interpersonal competence.1.1 There is no significance between male and female students in universities of technology. But the male students tend to be more closed.1.2 There is; no significance between the groups of an and engineering majors. But the science and engineering students tend to be more self-protected with a preference of being aione.1.3 There is no significance between students from countryside and those from cities. Bur students from countryside tend to be more sensitive.1.4 Based on the testing result on the present sample, the juniors are better than the sophomores in interpersonal competence.2. in terms of attribution in interpersonal competence.2.1 Generally speaking, the internal attribution- "effort" correlates with interpersonal competence in a direct way while the external attribution- "luck" and "context" correlates with it in an inverse way.2.2 In terms of gender, there is no significance between male and female students In attribution as far as interpersonal competence is concerned. But compared with female students who are better at interpersonal communication, male students tend to attribute their success to "context" .2.3 In terms of major, the students of science and engineering majors think they should make more effort in interpersonal communication and need more luck.2.4 There is no significance between students from countryside and those from cities in their attribution. But among students who are not good at communication, the students from countryside tend to think inward factor more important, esp. the "effort" . They also think that "luck" is very important.2.5 Juniors have deeper understanding than sophomores in the attributive tendency-more effort is needed to make in interpersonal communication.