Social Competence of Secondary School Students in Shillong Town
Journal Title: International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 6
Abstract
Social competence is a broad term which embrace the social, emotional, cognitive and behavioural facets requisite for social adaptation. An individual who maintains good socio- emotional skills, self-efficacy and adaptive behaviour is referred to as socially competent. In the present study an attempt was made to find out the Social Competence of Secondary School students of Shillong Town. The differences between sex, community, age and type of management in Social competence and the relationship between social competence and academic achievement was also be examined. The Social competence tool developed by V.P.Sharma, Prabha Shukla & Kiran Shukla was used in the study. The results revealed that no significant difference was found between sex, community and age group. However, differences were found between students of deficit and private schools and government and private schools. No significant relationship was found between social competence and academic achievement.
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Ibadani Syiem and Lapdianghun Nongrum
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