08Jun 2017

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR SNS USAGE.

  • Dept. of Educational Technology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu , India.
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Usage of Social Networking Sites (SNS) are very common among the adolescent students as the usage of smart phones increased and thus the access of the internet become cheaper and easier. In the Indian context, social intelligence is very much important while talking about the social values and norms. In this study, the investigator tried to correlate the SNS usage with social intelligence of higher secondary school students using an SNS usage inventory and Social intelligence test among 360 Higher Secondary School students in Palakkad district. The results show that there is no relation among SNS usage and their social intelligence.


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[Jijish Elias and M. Mirunalini. (2017); SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR SNS USAGE. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jun). 268-272] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


JIJISH ELIAS
Dept. of Educational Technology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu , India.

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4407      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4407