Social Connectedness: Relationship with Social Competencies and Self Esteem among School Going Children.

Abstract

Social connectedness is a process wherein the people come as a unit and interact with each other. It can also be defined in which people have relationships with each other and how the relationship benefits to the individual alone and also to the society as a whole. The social connectedness includes family friends, neighbors and also the mates or the peer groups. Social competence consists of various attributes and components such as social, emotional, cognitive, motivational and behavioral skills for social adaptation. It also includes where an individual learns from past experiences. The term self esteem means the process where we value ourselves. It depends on the perception of an individual and it varies from person to person as how we value the outside world and how much are we valuable to others. The aim of the current investigation to study the correlation between social connectedness, social competencies and self esteem among school going children. For this study, Social Connectedness scale (Lee & Robbins, 1995). Social Competencies scale (Oman, Vesley, McLeroy et al. 2002) and Self Esteem scale (Rosenberg, 1965) to be administered to the sample of 100 students in the age range of 17-20 years. The sample is to be taken from different schools of Chandigarh. An inter-correlation matrix was calculated to see the relationship among the variables. The result has shown positive and significant correlation of social connectedness and self esteem whereas positive but insignificant correlation of social connectedness with social competencies