Who has more Social Skills at Polytechnic Colleges in Japan?

Three-way Tabulation on Relation among motivation, attitudes and social skills

Abstract

This article discusses who has more social skills at Polytechnic Colleges in Japan. With data of questionnaire survey towards two Polytechnic College in Japan (n=607), the relation among trainees’ motivation, attitudes toward training, and skill-acquisition is analysed. By three-way cross tabulations and chi-square tests, trainees (1) who perceive that they can learn what they want to at Polytechnic Colleges, or alternatively, who believes skills, knowledges and know-hows acquired from training to be helpful in the future, and (2) who actively set about training have social skills than others. Some attitudes toward training relate to the level of social skills regardless of motivations, however, mostly, they relate to the social skills. Series of analyses indicate both motivation toward the vocational training and trainees’ absorption relate the social skills.