The Reflection Of Social Intelligence In Secondary School Teachers

Social intelligence is closely related to one’s own, personality and individual behavior. Those with social intelligence are fully aware of them and understand their environment. This enables them to control their emotions, make decisions about their goals in life. Social intelligence is the ability to understand and manage men and women, boys and girls, to act wisely in human relations. Social intelligence is that part of the individual’s mental ability which generates in him the capacity to adapt him to the society. The present study intended to find out the Social Intelligence of Secondary school teachers. This study belongs to survey method and the study was selected at Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh by using simple random sampling …show more content…
Thorndike maintained that there are three intelligences: abstract, mechanical and social. Daniel Goleman explain a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest finding in biology and brain science, revealing that we are “wired to connect” and the surprisingly deep impact of our relationships on every aspects of our lives. Social intelligence is also called behavioral intelligence, to conclude social intelligence is the human capacity to understand what is happening in the society and responding to that understanding in the personality and socially effective manner. social intelligence consists of the ability to act in different social situations to discover other people’s feelings and interests, to organize groups and negotiate solutions, to establish personal relationships with others, to express one’s feelings to others to interact and participate with others in various events, to recover from embarrassing situations with the least possible losses, to recognize one’s errors and failure and them, to adapt quickly to any medium one is placed in and to persuade others of one’s personal view. Though everyone needs intelligence in general and social intelligence in particular specially the teachers need social intelligence in to interact and to understand with students in the school environment is very much essential. High social intelligence is possessed by those who are able to handle people well. Social intelligence has different dimensions- Patience (b) …show more content…
Hypothesis: There will be no significant difference between the Social Intelligence levels among the Secondary School Teachers.
The computed data of the Teacher’s level of Social Intelligence based on their corresponding Mean Scores on various dimensions is shown in table-1
From the total scores it found that majority of the sample (57.30) expressed Moderate level of Social Intelligence, only 30% of the Secondary School Teachers expressed High level of Social Intelligence and less percentage of sample (12.70) responded Low level of Social Intelligence.
It is clear from table-1, that for the Patience, Confidence and Sensitivity dimensions, majority of teachers showed a higher level of Social Intelligence (59.57%, 62.29% and 64.43% respectively). Coming to the dimension Cooperativeness, there is less variation in the levels of Social Intelligence of Secondary School Teachers (High: 37.57%, Moderate: 29.71% and Low: 32.70). There is little higher percentage of samples (44.29%) having High level Social Intelligence and 35.57% of samples hold Moderate level of Social Intelligence. But for the dimensions Recognition of Social environment, Tactfulness and Sense of Humour majority of the sample (57.90, 85.30 and 76.40 respectively) exhibited Low level of Social Intelligence. Whereas, 39.43% of samples expressed Moderate level of Social Intelligence