Abstract
The present study aims to assess the life skills among school going adolescents in relation to gender, locale, parental education and parental occupation. The sample consisted of 200 school going adolescents studying in government and private schools of Patiala, Fatehgarh Sahib and Mansa districts of Punjab. Life skills scale (Sharma, 2003) and the background information sheets prepared by the investigator herself were used to collect the data. The findings revealed that female and rural school going adolescents possess more life skills than their counterparts. School going adolescents whose fathers and mothers are less educated possess significantly more life skills than their counterparts. School going adolescents who have business as parental occupation possess more life skills than their counterparts. Results of the study further revealed that school going adolescents whose mothers are non-working possess significantly more life skills than those with working mothers.
Highlights
Adolescence is a time of moving from immaturity of childhood into the maturity of adulthood
The t-value testing the significance of mean difference in life skills of male and female school going adolescents came out to be 2.17 which is significant at 0.05 level
The t-value testing the significance of mean difference in life skills of urban and rural school going adolescents came out to be 2.60 which is significant at 0.01 level
Summary
Adolescence is a time of moving from immaturity of childhood into the maturity of adulthood. As the adolescents mature cognitively, their mental processes become more analytical They are capable of abstract thinking, better articulation and of developing an independent ideology. These are the years of creativity idealism and spirit of adventure. The t-value testing the significance of mean difference in life skills of male and female school going adolescents came out to be 2.17 which is significant at 0.05 level. This shows that there are significant gender differences in life skills among school going adolescents. These results are in line with the findings of Pools and Vans (1989), Klingman (1998), Junge et al (2003), Alwell and Cobb (2009), Bharath and Kumar (2010) Forneris et al (2010) who concluded that females possess more life skills than males
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