Peer Victimization and Social Skills of Freshmen Students in College

This study determined which domain of peer victimization best influenced the social skills of first year college students. The research designs used in this study are non-experimental quantitative and descriptive-correlational technique, utilizing random sampling procedure. The total respondents were 100 first year college students enrolled in a local college at Governor Generoso, Davao Oriental. Survey questionnaires on peer victimization and social skills were used as the research instrument in data gathering. Results revealed that peer victimization was assessed at a moderate level, on the other hand, social skills was assessed at a high level. Moreover, data showed that peer victimization had no significant influence on the social skills of first year college students. Moreover, verbal victimization tends to have possible best influenced social skills among all the domains of peer victimization.