Social intelligence in relation to subjective well-being among adults

Pages: 1051-1053
Shashi Prabha and Uma Mittal (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

Social intelligence is an ability to get along well with others and to make them to co-operate with you. Many a time it also referred as people skills. It involves an awareness of social situations and the social changes that govern them and a knowledge of interpersonal communication and styles that could help a person to get his or her objectives in dealing with other people. Social intelligence appears to be an important concept for the promotion of subjective well being of an individual. Subjective well-being depends on how people assess their life, comprising affective and cognitive judgments (Diener, 1984; Diener & Chan, 2011). This relationship between social intelligence and subjective well-being has not been reviewed and researched much so far. Therefore this study has been undertaken to review the relationship between social intelligence and subjective well-being among adults. The present study was conducted on 200 adults residing in Jaipur city (age range- 20 to 30 years). Purposive sampling technique was used for the collection of the data. The tools comprised of three scales (i) Tromo social intelligence scale by Silvera, Martinussen, and Dahl (2001) (ii) Satisfaction with life scale by Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin (1985) (iii) Bradburn scale of psychological well-being (1969). In light of the above assumption results revealed that negative affectivity is negatively related to social intelligence which means that absence of negative emotions is more important for the high level of Social Intelligence .positive affectivity was not found significantly related to social intelligence suggesting that the presence of positive emotions is not necessary for being socially intelligent and vice versa. Further life satisfaction has also found positively related to social well-being suggesting that socially intelligent persons are more satisfied with their life and vice versa.