Exploring the Development of Social Intelligence of Students During University Years

Abstract

interactions and achieve manifold developments. The purpose of thestudy was to explore the development of social intelligence duringuniversity years among University students. The study was delimited tofour year under graduate programs Bachelor of Science (BS) students ofUniversity of Sargodha. The cross-sectional study includes the studentsof BS programs 1st semester and 7th semester. Using multi-stagesampling technique, 560 students in total from seven department of theuniversity were selected as the sample. Tromso Social Intelligence Scale(TSIS) with reliability coefficient (Cronbach Alpha) 0.75 was used. Itwas found that overall the development of social intelligence duringuniversity years was at good rate and statistically significant. The urbanand rural backgrounds students and boarder and day scholar studentsreported equal level of social intelligence; whereas male studentsreported higher level of social intelligence than the female students. It isrecommended that the universities may arrange seminars and groupdiscussion to provide social interaction to students. Universityadministration and teachers may arrange co-curricular activities andother social gatherings at inter-departmental and inter-university level.