Family income influence the soft skills and social skills develpoment among children

Abstract

Soft skills are a combination of people skills, social skills, communication skills, character traits, attitudes, career attributes, social intelligence and emotional intelligence. The main objective of the study was to find out the influence of family income on soft skills and social skills.The study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state. Two areas were selected purposively i.e., rural and urban, from urban area Hisar city and from rural area two villages namely Balsmand and Kharia were taken for collection of data. A total of 200 children in three age groups, namely, 3, 4 and 5 years were selected for the study. Family income was taken as independent variable. Soft skills and social skills were taken as dependent variable. Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale of Social Maturity (Sparrow et al., 1935) was used to determine soft skills and social skills among children. Result revealed that soft and social skills were significantly related with family income (c2 = 9.54*) and (c2 = 10.65**) in rural areas but both skills were not significant with family income in urban (c2 = 1.50) and (c2 = 0.29) areas.