Social Skill Measurement: Standardization of Scale

Social skills help individual to interact and perform effectively in a given social context and is associated with educational accomplishment, psychological adaptation, coping abilities, and employment. In lieu of the growing importance of social skill in every aspect of individual's life, it was felt imminent to evolve a scale for general population. Development and validation of the social skill scale are labelled under three levels-Phase I-writing of items and content validation, Phase II-factor analysis, Phase III-testing reliability and validity. An exploratory factor analysis with oblique rotation of the intercorrelations of the 23 items resulted in a 5-factor solution: leadership skill, team integration skill, affiliative skill, interpersonal skill, and social engagement skill. The present study will be an applied research with the objectives of developing an instrument of social skills, which can help in assessment process, used for intervention purposes targeting a definite population.