Assessment of life skills among secondary school students of district Nainital, Uttarakhand India

Abstract

Background: Any beneficial skills in our daily life can be considered as life skills. Various situation viz. choosing friends, selecting subjects, interacting with others and understanding own emotions etc. requires life skills. Life skills impart and enhance productivity, social relations and self-confidence of secondary school students.Aim: The present study aims to assess the level of life skills among secondary school students.Method: Self-standardized life skills questionnaire was used to collect data from randomly selected 800 government secondary school students of district Nainital, Uttarakhand. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 25.Results: Our study revealed that secondary school students of district Nainital, Uttarakhand possesses average life skills scores. No significance difference exist among school students w.r.t. gender and age. Significant difference was found w.r.t. locality. Students from hilly areas possess better life skills as compared to students of bhabhar areas. Conclusion: We propose that inoculation of life skills in secondary school students of district Nainital, Uttarakhand, is a collective duty of parent, teachers, policy makers and government.