Comparative study on Social Competence in Adolescents

Abstract

Social Competence is the ability of an individual to behave in ways that are skilled and effective. Social competence has bee n defined as the social ability and interpersonal skill of an individual in effectively meeting a person - situation interaction or successfully dealing with "an individual environmental factors‟. 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.