Impact Of Social Skills On High School Students’ Academic Performance

Abstract

This research explores the relationship between social skills and academic performance among students of high schools in Punjab, Pakistan. Nine important social skills i.e., engagement with others, open mindedness, compound skills, task performance, emotional regulations, collaboration, self-regulations, ambiguity tolerance, and hierarchical relationship management – were studied to observe impact over the academic performance of the school students. Study employed a descriptive, survey research which involved a sample of 300 secondary school students from both public and private sector schools. A self-constructed questionnaire comprising 34 items was used for data collection. The data was analysed through Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25. Frequency, t-test and ANOVA were used for the data analysis. Findings indicated a significant impact of the social skills on academic performance of the students. Therefore, it was recommended that the integration of social skills instruction into the school curricula is essential to achieve better academic outputs.