LIFE SKILLS OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE THOUBAL DISTRICT OF MANIPUR
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i4.2024.5365Keywords:
Adolescents, Life Skills, Higher Secondary School, StudentsAbstract [English]
Life skills are essential psychosocial skills, allowing people to transform information, attitudes, and beliefs into informed and healthy behaviors. These abilities assist individuals in achieving their goals and living up to their full potential. The present study aims to determine the level of life skills among high school students in Senapati district, Manipur, taking into account their gender variation, the types of residential areas they live in, such as rural and urban, and the types of residential places they stay in during their studies, such as homes, hostels, and rented places. The study employed both a descriptive method and a simple random sampling method. The investigator used a standardized Life Skills Scale (LSS-KCTA) developed by Chandra Kumari and Ayushi Tripathi to gather data. The scale's reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha) was 0.99, to measure the academic achievement the researcher used the result of the students in their High School Leaving Certificate Examination (HSLCE) result. Throughout the study, the researcher used percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, and ANOVA to determine the results. The study reveals that the maximum number of students have an average positive level of life skills. It is also found that there is no significant difference between female and male secondary school students, class Xi and Xii, Nuclear and Joint family, rural and urban, government and private, Home and hostel, Academic Achievement of the higher secondary school students.
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