Relationship between Students’ Self-Directed Learning Readiness and Interpersonal Skills at University Level

Abstract

Present study was aimed to investigate the relationship between students’ self-directed learning readiness and interpersonal skills at university level. A correlation research design was used to investigate the relationship between the variables of the study. All undergraduate students were taken as a population from the four common departments of University of the Punjab and The University of Lahore session (2019 to 2022). Sample was drawn from the population by using multistage sampling technique. The study included a sample of 869 undergraduate students which was 30% of the total population. Two survey questionnaires were adapted as an instrument for data collection. The reliability of the questionnaires was .701 and .703 respectively. Findings of the study revealed that there was a significant moderate positive correlation existed between self-directed learning readiness and interpersonal skills among university students. The results recommended that enhanced self-directed learning (SDLR) readiness supports students in developing interpersonal skills (IS).