Özet:

The purpose of this study is to study and determine the communication skills and self-capacities of students in terms of gender, class level, type of teaching, income level, place of residence, type of school graduated and branch variables and the correlation between them. The sample of the study in the 2018-2019 educational-educational year is a total of 853 students, including 659 girls and 194 men, who studied at the Sivas Republic University Health Services Professional High School. The research has used a screening model. The "Communication Skills Inventory" was developed by Ersanlı and Balcı to determine students' communication skills. The scale consists of three subdimensions, mental, emotional and behavioral, and a total of 45 matters. The total reliability of the scale was 68, and in this study it was 85. To determine the student’s self-capacity, adaptation to the Turkish developed by Sherer, Maddux, Mercandante, Dunn, Jacobs and Rogers was used by the “General Self-capacity Measurement” made by Yıldırım and Ilhan. The scale consists of three sub-dimensions, including the beginning, the year, and the u-resistance, and a total of 17 items. The reliability of the adjusted scale was 80 and in this study it was 86. The data related to the study was analyzed using Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S), Arithmetic Medium, Standard Sappma, Independent Groups T-Test, ANOVA, Tukey, Pearson Correlation Census. The communication skills of students are defined as gender, graduated high school type and branch; their self-capacity significantly vary according to income level, graduated high school type and branch variables; their communication skills and self-capacity’s total score correlations are positive to the middle level.