Local Literature
RESEARCH TITLE:
Social Skills and Self-Concept of Learners
AUTHORS: Martiallou T. Organiza
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to determine the significant influence of social skills
to the self-concept of students. This study also aimed to determine which domains
of social skills significantly influence the self-concept of students. This study utilized
a non-experimental quantitative research design utilizing descriptive-correlational
technique. Research instruments on social skills and self-concept of the students
were used as sources of data. Utilizing Pearson r, this study found out that the
indicators of social skills and learning self-concept of students are significantly
correlated. Using regression, it was found out that the social skills of the students
significantly influenced their self-concept.
INTRODUCTION
Self-concept is a filtering and coloring mechanism for children's daily experiences. It
is how the child sees himself. It is made up of a sense of belonging and being
accepted, a sense of being good, and a sense of being capable of doing things well.
Whether self-concept is positive or negative, it can influence important areas of a
child's development and achievement. It can also affect the child's relationship with
others, especially family members (Cokley and Patel, 2007).Students with poor self-
concept tend to have unhealthy peer relations. As a proof, teachers across the
globe always face troubles with students who initiate fight with their classmates. If
not fighting, other students do not acquire a sense of
friendliness and often caught bullying and showing aggression against their
classmates in the form of boxing or namebranding. While others are fond of verbal
teasing, other students do not integrate themselves with their classmates during
group activities (Kronier and Bierman, 2007). As school children are expected to
develop a self-concept at the age they are expected to, in the Philippines, there are
students who have poor emotional stability as they frequently worry a lot,
depressed on just anything, and even feel nervous when asked to answer on the
board. There are students who even cry when asked to answer simple mathematical
problems (De Guzman and Choi, 2013).
Similarly, students with low self-concept have issues on emotional stability and
general esteem. These students manifest poor relationship with their classmates
and are usually troubled and always caught bullying other classmates or getting
poor scores in their assessments. These students become common concerns of
teachers as subjects for behavior modification (Harter, 2006).
The researcher has rarely come across of local research that explores the social
skills and self-concept of students. This undertaking therefore, can become a
blueprint of new knowledge and supplementary to the existing document for every
variable involved in this research.It is in this considerable magnitude that the
researcher decided to conduct the study as the weight of social skills to the self-
concept of the students cannot be underscored. Social skills as one important
variable
in this study contributes to the self-esteem of the students as pointed out in the
various literature from authors like Harter (1999), Baumeister, Campbell,
Kruegerand Vohs 2003) and Joshi and Srivastava (2009), among others.
