IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH (IJSSMR )

E-ISSN 2545-5303
P-ISSN 2695-2203
VOL. 11 NO. 2 2025
DOI: 10.56201/ijssmr.vol.11no2.2025.pg.400.411

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Social Intelligence (Social Information Processing, Social Skills and Social Awareness) as a Predictor of Fear of Negative Evaluation Among Undergraduate Students

Nwodo, Theodora Onyinyechi, Chikwendu, Chimezie Emmanuel, Ekpenyong, Amate, Stacey, Douglas, John Ufuoma, Agu, Laurine Chikamneto

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Abstract

The study investigated social intelligence (Social Information Processing, Social Skills and Social Awareness) as a predictor of fear of negative evaluation among undergraduate students. One hundred and twenty-three (123) undergraduate students which comprises 74 females and 49 males, the age range of 17-24 years with a mean age of 20.54 and SD of 2.45 were selected using multi-stage (cluster, simple random: by balloting and purposive) sampling techniques as participants from Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu. Watson and Friend (1969) Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE), Silvera et al. (2001) and Tromso Social Intelligence Scale and Hudson (1982) were used for data collection, the design for this study was correlation, as multiple hierarchical regression using SPSS version 27 was used to analysis the data. The result revealed that social awareness dimension of social intelligence St?= .427* and t= 2.323* at p< .05 positively predicted fear of negative evaluation, while the other two dimensions of social intelligence (social skill St?= .026 and t= .120 and social information process of St?= .117 and t= .608 at p< .05) failed to predict fear of negative evaluation, social intelligence jointly failed to predict the dependent variable sig.= .067 at p< .05. Hence, therapist should assist undergraduate to always prepare for the worse so when it comes, they will know how to handle the situation.

keywords:

social intelligence, social information processing, social skills, social awareness, fear of negative evaluation and undergraduate students

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