A COMPLEMENTARY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND SOCIAL SKILLS AMONG RURAL CHILDREN

“The major problems facing the world today can be solved only if we improve our understanding of human behavior”. Communication skills and social skills both are very essential skills to promote pro social behavior. Hence, objective of this paper is to find out the communication and social skills of the rural children and to see whether there is a relationship between communication skills and social skills. The study was conducted in Ladwa village of District Hisar purposively due to easy accessibility. A sample comprised of 50 children in the age group of 7-8 years. The results revealed receptive aspect of communication skills was significantly correlated with interpersonal relationship aspect of social skills and expressive aspect of communication skills was significantly correlated with coping skills. It was also resulted that composite communication skills strongly correlated with composite social skills among children. Majority of the respondents were also low in composite communication skills as well as in social skills.