The impact of life skills training on psychological well-being: The role of gender differences

Pages: 193-197
Vijendra Kumar S.K. (Counseling Psychologist, Centre for Counseling and Career Guidance, PES University, Bangalore)
A.R. Krishnamurthy (Department of Psychology, Sahyadri College Campus Kuvempu University, Shimoga, Karnataka)

This paper is a partial work of the role of life skills training on enabling the psychological well-being of visually challenged high school students. The original work is an experimental study through matched design method. Objectives: In this paper, the focus is on the impact of life skills training on the psychological well-being of boys and girls as a separate analysis as well as the differences between them. 15 girls and 16 boys were participated in life skills training program in the residential blind school. Psychological well-being tests were administered (SCWBS and Ryff’s PWB) before and after life skills training, which were conducted once a week, stretched for approximately six months. The follow up tests were administered after seventy days of the post training tests administered. Repeated measures ANOVA was employed to analyse the data. R-ANOVA table shows that in SCWBS, F ratio is significant in girls score [ F.05 (2,28)=5.34, p<0.05] and boys it is not significant[ F.05 (2,30)=2.08, p>0.05]. However, Ryff’s PWB, both the gender showed significant improvement {girls: [ F.05 (2,28)=5.85, p<0.05 and boys [ F.05 (2,30)=7.62, p<0.05]} in their psychological well-being score of post life skills training compared to pre tests. Post hoc measures and effect size were also calculated and explained.