A Study of Social Skills of Secondary School Students in relation to Neuroticism

The present study is an effort to compare the social skills of secondary school students in relation to neuroticism. The objective of this researcher was to compare the different dimensions of social skills i.e. skills of concern for others, relationship skills, communication skills, self-control skills, problem solving skills and overall social skills of secondary school students in relation to neuroticism. Null hypotheses have been framed to achieve this purpose. This study employed survey method of descriptive researcher. The sample of the study included 200 students of 10 government schools of Moradabad city. Simple random sampling technique has been used for the selection of the sample. Social skill was treated as dependent variable while neuroticism was taken as independent variable. Social Skills Rating Scale by Vishal Sood, Arti Anand and Suresh Kumar and Big Five Personality Inventory developed by Dr. Arun Kumar Singh and Dr. Ashok Kumar was used to collect the data. Mean, standard deviation and one-way analysis of variance has been used for data analysis. The findings showed that a significant difference existed in the skills of concern for others, relationship skills, communication skills, self-control skills, problem solving skills and overall social skills of secondary school students in relation to neuroticism. It was found that secondary school students who have high and average neuroticism possess below average social skills while the students who have low neuroticism possess above average social skills.