Communication tools and social media usage: Assessing self-perceived communication competence

Communication skills, such as listening, open-mindedness, empathy, and confidence, are essential for personal professional development play a significant role in many disciplines, including education, health, business. Social media, widely used communication channel, has revolutionized how people interact, its effects on education overall social significant. The purpose of this study was to determine the level skills possessed by university students whether these levels affected media applications that use. In study, there were 407 participants sample, with 55.8% (227) female 44.2% (180) male. scale assess students’ skills. Exploratory statistics (mean standard deviation) participants’ skill levels. Bayesian well data supported differentiation based independent variables. revealed most college moderate disclosed disparities between academic departments, underscoring need curricula teaching methods. It also suggested platforms have little effect some gender differences observed, emphasizing significance addressing enhance