National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Social skills are the skills we use every day to interact and communicate with others. They include verbal and non-verbal communication, such as speech, gesture, facial expression and body language. The study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state. Two areas were selected purposively i.e., rural and urban. A total of 200 children in three age groups, namely 3, 4 and 5 years were selected for the study. Age, gender and area were taken as independent variable. Social skills and social skills were taken as dependent variable. Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale of Social Maturity (Sparrow et al., 1935) was used to determine social skills among children. Result revealed that Mean scores on social skills of boys in rural areas were higher than girls in age groups 3-5 years. There was no significant difference (z = 0.17) in mean score on social skills of boys and girls in rural areas on the basis of overall mean. Similarly, Mean scores of children in urban areas were high than that of children in rural areas on the basis of overall mean. The difference in mean scores on social skills of boys and girls in both locations on the basis of overall mean were non-significant. The mean difference in social skills was significant over the location from age group 3-5years.
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