Social comepetences of students as an element shaping human potential within Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia and Spain
ENThe aim of the paper is to discuss and analyse the social competence of students in the light of the results of a questionnaire survey on their social capital. The survey was carried out among students starting education at the Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Szczecin, Poland, of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration University in Vigo (Spain) in 2013, of the Faculty of Politics and Management at the Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2014 and of the Faculty of Economics University at the Matej Bel in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia in 2015. The paper is theoretical and empirical. The first part of the paper is intended to review the literature on the subject of social competence. The methodology and characteristics of the respondents are presented in the second part of the paper. The aim of the next part is to present the results of the research on the social competences of the studied students. The basic research method is survey research and basic descriptive statistics methods such as chain indexes or correlation coefficients. The findings of the analysis suggest they have not developed a high level of social competence, which may stem from the limited scope of social networks which they belong to, a lack of generalized trust and trust in institutions as well as, despite their enormous potential, unwillingness to adopt civic approach and civil awareness.
