Impact of parents educational and occupational background on life skills among school going adolescents from Nainital district of Uttarakhand

Abstract

Parents have important role in rearing & development of adolescents. The way adolescents are loved, cared & nurtured by parents will decide their future life opportunities. Adolescents acquire most of their life skills viz. style of communicating, social relationships, empathy, emotion and stress management from their family background. Present study was aimed to find life skills variance among school going adolescents w.r.t. their parents educational and occupational background. A descriptive survey research design was used on sample comprising 800 school going adolescents, randomly selected from four blocks of Nainital district, Uttarakhand. Data collection was done applying self-standardized life skills tool comprising fifty eight items, on seven life skills domains. Collected data was analyzed through SPSS version 25 to enumerate mean, SD, F-value and t-value. Results of this study show that there exists no significant difference in total life skills among the school going adolescents’ w.r.t. occupational background of parents as well as mothers’ education; while fathers’ educational background show significant impact.