Effect of social skills training programme on self concept and social competence of elementary school students

Abstract

The present experimental research aims to explore the effect of Social Skills Training Programme on Self Concept and Social Competence of Elementary school students. The sample consisted of 80 students from class VIII. Self developed Social Skills Rating Scale was used to identify the students having social skills deficits. Self Concept rating Scale (Deo, 1998) and Social Competence Scale (Sharma, Shukla and Shukla, (1992) were administered before and after the training programme. The control group was given no treatment and experimental group was taught by various strategies i.e role playing, gaming, storytelling etc. The intervention programme was performed for forty days. The major findings of the study revealed that Social Skills Training Programme has a significant effect on self concept and social competence of elementary school students having social skills deficits. newline