SOCIAL COMPETENCE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO SELF-CONFIDENCE

The main objective of present study was to find out the relationship between Social Competence and Self Confidence of Government senior secondary school students. To achieve this objective, social competence scale (SCS) by V.P. Sharma, Prabha Shukla and Kiran Shukla (1992) and Self-confidence inventory by Dr. M. Baswana (1971) were used. The sample consists of 200 students of various government senior secondary school selected randomly from Ludhiana District of Punjab, India. The sample was equally categorized between Boys – Girls and Arts – Science Students. The results revealed that there exists a significant relationship between self confidence and social competence of Government Senior Secondary School Students. It means that self confidence affects the social competence of Government Senior Secondary School Students