Impact of school related factors on life skills among school going adolescents

Pages: 123-126
Meenakshi and Mandeep Kaur (Department of Education and Community Services, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab)

Life skills are defined as non-academic abilities, knowledge, attitude and behavior that must be learned for success in society. The present study aims to assess the impact of school factors i.e. stream of study, type of school and academic achievement on life skills among school going adolescents. The sample consisted of 200 school going adolescents. Life skills scale (Sharma, 2003) and background information sheet prepared by the investigator herself was used to collect the data. It was found that adolescents from private schools have better life skills than government school adolescents. Science stream school going adolescents possess more life skills than commerce and arts stream school going adolescents. Commerce stream adolescents possess significantly more life skills than arts stream school going adolescents. High achieving school going adolescents possess significantly more life skills than low achieving counterparts.