An Impact of Social Skills on Personality Development of Prospective Teachers

Abstract

Social skills and social competence are important parts of good social functioning. One way to improve social skills is through social skills trainings. The main goal of these trainings is to teach and enhance interpersonal skills that are needed for a child to be successful in social situations An individual's personality is an aggregate conglomeration of the decisions they have made throughout their life and the memory of the experiences to which these decisions led. There are inherent natural, genetic, and environmental factors that contribute to the development of our personality. To study the difference in the mean score of social skills on the basis of Gender. The objective of the study was: to study the difference in the mean score of social skills on the basis of their Educational Qualification., to study the difference in the mean score of personality development on the basis of Gender and to study the difference in the mean score of personality development on the basis of their Educational Qualification. Self-constructed and validated tool on Social Skills Personality test were employed. The findings were: there is a significant difference between male and female in their peer skills, curiosity, empathy, and social skills, there is a significant difference between graduate and post graduate in their nonverbal communications, assertiveness, curiosity, cooperation, empathy, self-management and social skills. there is no significant difference between in their openness, conciousteousness, extra version, agreeableness, neuroticism and personality development, there is no significant difference between graduate and post graduate in their openness, Conciousteousness, Extra version, Agreeableness, Neuroticism and personality development.