Volume : III, Issue : II, February - 2014

Assessment of Life Skills Among Adolescents

Dr. K. Anuradha

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Life skills have been defined by WHO (1999), as abilities for positive and adaptive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. Adolescence is the transition period from childhood to adulthood and many adolescents experience anxiety, confusion and difficulty in their preparation for adulthood. It is through life skills they will solve their problems, manage situations and cope up with a variety of stressors. Measuring life skills is difficult task and research is scarce in this area. An attempt was made in the present study to assess the life skills among adolescents. The sample were 600 adolescents (300 boys and 300 girls ), studying Intermediate course in three different types of colleges (Govt./aided, Private and corporate) across four towns (Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Vizag and Tirupati), and were selected through multi-stage stratified random sampling technique. Life Skills Self Rating Scale (LSSRS) specially developed for this purpose was used for assessment of life skills of adolescents after standardization. The results revealed that adolescents secured moderately good score on LSSR scale. Significant gender difference was observed in the mean scores of life skills. Boys scored more on skills like decision making, coping with emotions and problems solving, where as girls exceeded boys score in self awareness, critical thinking and empathy skills. Comparatively students from corporate colleges exceeded others in skills such as decision making, effective communication, self awareness, problems solving, critical thinking, and inter-personal relationship skills. With regard to place of residence ,when compared with students of other places students from Vijayawada scored better on life skills score in creative thinking, effective communication, problem solving, empathy and coping up with stress. As studies have reported that life skills can be taught a need for life skills based education is emphasized.

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Dr.K.Anuradha Assessment of Life Skills Among Adolescents International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.III, Issue.II February 2014

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