Social Adaptability Capacity of High School Students:Current Status and Influencing Factors

This study presents the survey results of 790 students of six high schools in Hanoi on social adaptability competence, which is one of the four components of social intelligence. The survey results on the current situation of social adaptability capacity show that majority of students have correct and appropriate adaptability behaviors. The majority of students rated their own social copping performance (graded by scores) from average to good (84.3%). However, there is still a significant part of high school students with weak or negative adaptability behaviors, belonging to the group of low social adaptability ability (15.7%). The survey results also found a number of factors that significantly affect the level of this ability of students. This result contributes to providing useful information in the development of educational programs and is a reliable database for generating educational solutions to improve the social adaptability capacity of high school students.