Comparative study on Social Competence in Adolescents
2013; Volume: 1; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17762/ijritcc.v1i12.2886
ISSN2321-8169
Autores Tópico(s)Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
ResumoSocial Competence is the ability of individual to behave in ways that are skilled and effective. Social competence has bee n defined as the social ability and interpersonal skill of individual in effectively meeting a person - situation interaction or successfully dealing with an individual environmental factorsA¢â‚¬A¸. Therefore, the present study was investigated to the assess Social Competence of adolescents age group 13 to 15 years out of which 60 girls (30 from IX stand ard and 30 X standard) and 60 boys (30 from IX standard and 30 X standard) were selected randomly. The sample was selected from Sadhu Vaswani Public School, Jaipur city (Rajasthan). Social Competence Scale (SCS), Prof. V.P. Sharma, Dr. Kiran Shukla and Dr. Prabha Shukla a standardized tool was used for data collection. The data collected for the present study were coded, qualitative and quantitative assessment was attempted. For quantitative analysis frequencies and percentage values and t - test were comput ed. The major findings of the study revealed that the percentages of 120 adolescents that falls in low and very low category (93.33%) of social competence level. These finding are in line with the study of White (1963) it can be depicted from the results t hat adolescents have low transaction with social environment, so there is less of learning as they do not come in contact with others, successful expe riences.
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