Relationship between self confidence and social competence of adolescents

Self confidence refers to a person’s perceived ability to tackle situations successfully without leaning on others and to have a positive self-evaluation (Basavanna, 1975) and Social Competence is the ability of acting communicatively and co-operatively in a self organized manner, towards successfully realizing or developing objectives and plans in structure of social interaction” (Sonntag and Schaper, 1992). The aim of the present study was to find the relationship between Self Confidence and Social Competence. Sample of the study includes 43 II PUC students of a private college in Bangalore and the sample was selected using purposive sampling method. The results indicate that the sample of the study had moderate Self Confidence and moderate Social Competence. The findings showed that there was no significant gender difference in Self Confidence and Social Competence of the sample of the study and respondents with high Self Confidence had higher Social Competence.