The Predictive Ability of Communicative Competence of Peer Acceptance among the Twelfth-grade Students in the State of Kuwait

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the level of communicative competence and peer acceptance, and the relationship between the communicative competence and peer acceptance, and whether there were differences in the relationship between the variables attributed to sex between the twelfth-grade students amounted to (25215) students for the academic year 2020/2021.  The sample of the study consisted of (608) males and female's students. They were selected through the convenience sampling method. The correlational descriptive methodology was applied in this study. Two tools were also used commensurate with the study and its objectives. Tools were the communicative competence and peer acceptance scale. Results showed that the level of communicative competence was high with a mean of (3.83), and the level of peer acceptance was also high with a mean of (4.18), Results also showed that there was a statistically significance positive relationship at the significance level (0.05) between communicative competence and peer acceptance, where the value of correlation coefficient was (0.61). The results also showed that the communicative competence has explained (37%) of the variation in peer acceptance as predicted by peer acceptance, and there were statistically significant differences at the level of (0.05) in the relationship between the communicative competence and peer acceptance in favor of males.