SOCIAL COMPETENCY AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN RELATION TO DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES

Social competence can be defined as the social skills that an individual require to successfully adapt himself/herself to the society.It is one of the important attribute of the member of the progressive society.In the society, the success of an individual depends upon the extent to which he/she has attained the social competence required for his selfdevelopment and self-realization.The high level of social competency is an important feature for the effective social interaction.The present study has been done with the aim to study the significance of difference in social competency with respect to gender, locality, types of family and birth order.Descriptive research method has been adopted.200 post graduate students were selected by using simple random sampling technique.Social Competence Scale (Sharma & Rani, 2012) was used to gather the required data.The collected data have been analysed using statistical techniques like mean, standard deviation, critical ratio and one-way ANOVA.The results of the study depicted that gender, locality, type of family and birth order have no significant influence on social competency of university students.