Adolescent School Students And Life Skills – A Descriptive Study

Abstract

The transition period for adolescents where they face lot of pressure from the environment and they are not having necessary skill to meet the challenges of day to day life, it becomes essential to equip life skills for their positive growth and development.  School is a place where they spend most of their time in studies which has to take utmost responsibility in developing the life skills and parents also provide space for the adolescents to take decisions relating to their career and education needed for their development.  Hence the current research emphasis on assessing the life skills possessed by the adolescent school students and suggest suitable rehabilitative measure to enhance the life skills.  The researcher has accepted descriptive research design and for data collection the researcher has adopted systematic random sampling method. The total sample size was 700 and the researcher adopted a standardized scale named ‘Life skills Assessment Scale’ developed by Dr.A.Radhakrishnan Nair (2010) of RGNIYD.  Data has been analyzed by using SPSS. Difference with gender and life skills, domicile and life skills and ANOVA with fathers literacy and mothers literacy with life skills have been performed.  Findings and suggestions are given in this article.