JURNAL INTERNASIONAL KEBIDANAN 2020-2023 UNIVERSITAS KEDOKTERAN GUILAN VOLUME 33 ISSUE 2.
JOURNAL OF HOLISTIC NURSING OF MIDWIFERY.
Social Competence and Its Related Factors in High School
Students: A Cross-sectional Study

JURNAL INTERNASIONAL KEBIDANAN 2020-2023 UNIVERSITAS KEDOKTERAN GUILAN VOLUME 33 ISSUE 2.
JOURNAL OF HOLISTIC NURSING OF MIDWIFERY.
Social Competence and Its Related Factors in High School
Students: A Cross-sectional Study

Social competence, Students, Adolescent, Social skills

Introduction: Social competence can help adolescents achieve effective social interactions
and establish and maintain successful relationships with peers and society.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the status of social competence and
its related factors in high school students in Rasht City, Iran.
Materials and Methods: In the cross-sectional analytical study, 491 high school students in

Rasht were selected by multi-stage random cluster sampling. The study tool was a two-
part questionnaire: the demographic characteristics of the participants and the social

competence questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, 1-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), the
Pearson correlation coefficient, independent t test, and multiple linear regression were
used for statistical analysis.
Results: Of 491 students, 65.4% were female, 63.1% were the first child of the family, and
94.3% had normal sleep amount. Also, 94.1% of students lived with their parents. Their mean
social competence was at the desired level (261.7±8.31, total score: 47-329). There was a
significant relationship between school grade point average (r=0.271, P=0.001), duration of
Internet use (r=-0.103, P=0.022), and students’ sleep amount with social competence based
on 1-way ANOVA test (P=0.005). Based on multiple linear regression analysis, a high-grade
point average was associated with increased social competence (B=7.54, 95% CI; 5.43 to 9.78,
P=0.001) and female gender (B=-6.71, 95% CI; -13.15 to -0.26, P=0.04), being the second child
compared to the first (B=-8.19, 95% CI; -14.48 to -1.90, P=0.011), insomnia (B=-19.07, 95% CI;
-36.14 to -2.01, P=0.029) and parental divorce and living with father (B=-46.47, 95% CI; -81.95
to -10.99, P=0.01) were associated with low social competence (R2
=0.16).

Conclusion: These results can help managers plan educational and training organizations and
promote parents’ awareness to eliminate everyday barriers and develop social competence
in adolescents.

Fatemeh Hosseinzadeh Siboni , Abdolhosein Emami Sigaroudi , Moluk Pouralizadeh , Saman Maroufizadeh

April 2023, Volume 33, Number 2

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