EFFICACY OF LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION ON MANAGEMENT OF EMOTIONAL SKILLS (STRESS & EMOTIONS) AMONG ADOLESCENTS IN A SELECTED SCHOOL AT KANYA KUMARI DISTRICT

Abstract

Adolescence has spurt of growth and development and has distinctive health and educational needs. Youth’s make an inspiration on this newly discovered world, determine matters, comprehend new viewpoints, and collaborate on dependable and sensitive actions. Life Skills Education (LSE) encompasses psychosocial competencies and interpersonal skills that assist people to make knowledge selections, clear up problems critically and solve real life situation creatively, talk effectively and efficiently, construct good relationships, helps to empathise with others, and deals with their lives healthily and productively (WHO, 2020). Adolescents tend to experience more extreme emotions and stress, both negative and positive in their day to day life but how they manage these, matters a lot. Thus, for the intellectual, social and emotional well-being of adolescents, it is highly important to check the stress levels among them. Not much has been researched in the area of stress levels and interventions of Indian adolescents. Therefore, the prime objective of this work is to test the capability of life skill training programme in relieving stress among Indian adolescents. So the investigator did a study to assess the management of emotional skills like stress and emotion component of the adolescent girls when they faced the challenges in their lives. The objectives of the study were to assess the emotional skills (Stress and Emotions) among adolescent girls and to find the association between emotional skills (Stress and Emotions) and selected demographic variables (age, siblings, education status and occupation of the father and mother) of the adolescent girls. An Experimental Pre-test ― post-test control group design was adopted. The samples of the study were 30 girls between 13 to 17 years studying in 7th to 11th standards of selected schools. Collected data were analysed by descriptive and inferential statistics. According to the statistical report there was significant association between the number of siblings, mother’s occupation and emotional skills (Stress and Emotions) in the experimental group which is statistically significant at p <0.01 level.