M.A. Thesis:

The relationship between social skills and social adequacy with self_esteem of first grade high school students of joghatay(2018_2019)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between social skills and social competence with self-esteem of high school students in Jaghtai in the Academic year of 2018-2019. The purpose of this study is applied and in terms of data collection is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of this study consisted of 834 first grade high school students in Jaghtai city, out of which 150 were selected using Morgan table. Samples were selected by stratified random sampling from the schools of Jaghtai city. Three questionnaires of Matson Social Skills and Cooper Smith Self-Esteem Questionnaire and Streier Social Proficiency Test were used. The statistical method of this study was correlation and multivariate regression. The results of statistical analysis indicated that there was a significant relationship between social skills and self-esteem of students as well as between social competence and self-esteem at the level of 0.01 and 0.05 .

Keywords: Social skills, Social competence, Self-esteem