SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND STUDY HABITS AMONG B.ED. LEARNERS: A CORRELATIONAL STUDY

Social intelligence refers to a person’s ability to understand and manage interpersonal relationships. It refers to a person’s ability to understand and manage interpersonal relationships. Social intelligence helps individuals build relationships form friendships and cooperation’s. In other words, it is the ability to get along with others and to encourage them to co-operate. Social intelligence encompass: Patience, Cooperativeness, Confidence, Sensitivity, Recognition of Social Environment, Tactfulness, Sense of Humor and Memory. Study habits refer to the activities carried out by learners during the learning process to enhance learning. Study habits are practicing the abilities for learning. These habits intend to elicit and guide one’s cognitive processes during learning. Study habits include Management of Timetable, management of home environment, planning of work subjects, reading & note taking, concentration, Memorization, preparation for test, examination and also general habits & attitudes. This study is undertaken to study the correlation between social intelligence and study habits among B.Ed. learners. The sample for the study was 100 B.Ed. Learners. Researcher made Social Intelligence Scale and Study habits inventory were administered for the collection of data using Google form. The Statistical Techniques used were Mean, standard deviation and ‘r’. Findings of the study revealed that there is no significant relationship between Social Intelligence and Study Habits of B.Ed. learners. Also, it was found that there is no significant relationship between Social Intelligence and Study Habits of B.Ed. learners as per gender as well as Stream.