Promoting personal profile of adolescents through life skills training programme

Pages:224-228
R. Subasree (School of Counselling, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur, Tamilnadu)

The present study attempts to focus more on adolescent’s positive behavior as it’s a period of increased potentials and also vulnerable to high risk behavior. Building positive behavior among adolescence requires training and programmes to enhance and restore the balance among individuals, which result in developing life skills. Life Skills have been defined by WHO as “abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of every day. Keeping the aforesaid view the current study focused on enhancing positive personal profile of the adolescents’ through life skills training programme. The present study had three major research questions, 1. Is that the positive personal profile (Emotional Intelligence) of the individual enhances through life skills training programme? 2. Whether boys and girls differ in their Positive personal profile ( E I) as a result of life skills training? 3. Is there any difference between control group and experimental group on positive personal profile as an effect on intervention programme? The sample were 77 students belonging to a Government Higher Secondary School. The pre- post experimental design was utilize for the study and the Simple Random sampling method was adopted. In this present study the results revealed that ‘the effect of Life Skills training programme was found to be positive on positive personal profile’. There was no gender difference between boys and girls before the intervention, and it was found after the intervention on certain factors like, Self-awareness, Self-Management, Internality and Social Skills. On the whole, the personal profile of the adolescents enhanced as a result of life skills training programme.