| Summary: | Background: Optimal understanding of emotions and behavior of others called social intelligence. Increasing interpersonal intelligence has positive impact on psychological well-being and it is leads to life satisfaction respectively. Tribes who live in geographically isolated place are not having an enough exposure to the external world. Except their in-group most of them don’t maintain interpersonal relationship with others. Tribal perspective towards others is unknown. So there is a need to understand the social intelligence of tribes. Objective: The purpose of this research is to measure the level and association between social intelligence and psychological well-being among tribes based on mediating role of perceived social support. Methods: In total, 124 PVTG tribe adults in the age range between 18-25 years in both genders from the Nilgiris are the sample of this study. An online survey would be conduct by using stratified random sampling method. Participants ask to complete the Socio-demographic profile form, Tromso Social Intelligence Scale (TSIS), Psychological well-being (PWB) and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) questionnaire. Results: Data will be entered into SPSS software to analyze the descriptive statistics, association of Social intelligence and Psychological well-being. Hierarchical linear regressions analysis will perform to explore the mediating role of perceived social support. Results, findings and implications will be discussed.
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