Social Competence among Secondary School Students: Influence of Parenting

“Social competence refers to the abilities to understand others’ perception, emotions, feelings and attain social cues, understand other people goals and motivation and complex situation and resolve the social conflicts” (Osman, 2001).“Parenting refers to “the perceptions of the individual (perceived parenting) on one's own feeling as to how one is brought up by one's parents. It refers to the role of mothering, fathering and parenting as a whole” (Bhardwaj, 1998). The present study was undertaken to find outsocial competence of secondary school students and to analyze its relationship with their parenting. The study included 200 secondary school students (100 students from each type of school i.e. Government and Private schools, out of 100 students (50 male students and 50 female students). The study revealed that male and female students possessed similar social competence and had similar parenting. Significant positive relationship was found between social competence of secondary school students with parenting.