Comparison of social-emotional skills of secondary level students of public and private schools

Abstract

The present study focuses on the social-emotional skills of public and private sector secondary schools of the province of Punjab. The objectives of the study were i) to find out the social-emotional skills of male secondary schools in, province of Punjab. ii) To find out the social-emotional skills of female secondary schools province of Punjab. iii) To find out the level of social-emotional skills of secondary level students of public and private schools province of Punjab. iv) To compare the difference in key social-emotional skills between public and private secondary schools province of Punjab. The population of the study was all the private and public sector 10^th grade students of the province of Punjab. 96 public and private schools from 4 districts and 1920 students were selected through a multistage random sampling technique. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyze the data. The major findings of the study were that students from both public and private secondary schools in Punjab have an average level of social-emotional skills (SEL), and no significant difference was found between the overall SEL of students from public and private schools. Recommendation is that teachers may be trained to use counseling services to provide emotional support to students for balanced personality development.