International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2016, Volume : 6, Issue : 11
First page : ( 178) Last page : ( 186)
Online ISSN : 2249-2496.

Peer relationships as influenced by social intelligence of adolescents

Mathur Anjali*, Chacko Nisha*,  Anshu**, Srivastava Manjari***

*Assistant Professor, Department of Home Science, SHIATS, Allahabad

**Associate Professor, Department of Home Science, SHIATS, Allahabad

***MSc. Student, Department of Home Science, SHIATS, Allahabad

Online published on 24 April, 2018.

Abstract

Social intelligence is quickly becoming a global requirement and a critical element of success for individuals in all type of settings. The process of becoming more socially intelligent involves investigating what motivates drives and influences people. Good interpersonal and social skills not only dictate the success a person achieves in his human relationships but also in his job pursuits as one needs to be socially skilled particularly with jobs that involve direct contact and communication with other people. Thus the present study was undertaken to study the peer relationships as influenced by social intelligence of adolescents. Descriptive Research design” was adopted and 180 adolescents in the age group of 15 to 18 years belonging to three different types of socio economic status i.e., lower, middle and upper which were selected through stratified random sampling technique from various schools and colleges of Allahabad city. Socio economic status of the sample was ascertained by using revised Kuppuswamy (1962) Socio Economic Status Scale revised by Kumar and Tiwari (2012). Social Intelligence Scale developed by Chaddha and Ganesan (1971) was used to ascertain the social intelligence of college students and Social Acceptability Test developed by Chopra (1997) (Sociometric measures in Hindi) was used to assess the social acceptance of adolescents. Results revealed that respondents belonging to upper socio economic group had better social and girls possessed better social intelligence than boys. Significant impact of socio economic status was seen on social intelligence of respondents and a significant correlation was seen between social intelligence and peer relationships among female respondents and a non-significant impact was seen with regard to boys.

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