A Study of Life Skills among College Students

Abstract

The growing pace of this modern life possesses enormous demands and challenges on youth. There has been a growing awareness among school and college managements that examination success does not necessarily translate into success in personal and professional life. Many countries are now considering the development of life skills-based education in response to the need to reform traditional education systems which appear to be out of step with the realities and the challenges of modern social and economic life. Life skills are problem-solving behaviours appropriately and responsibly used in the management of personal affairs. The aim of this research is to study the Life skills among college students. To carry out this study college students (including male and female) studying in Medicine, Engineering, Education, Arts and Science Colleges were chosen as sample of the study. To assess the Life Skills, Life Skills Inventory by Thangadurai, S. (2012) was used. The investigator collected 498 samples from various colleges. The investigator used random sampling method as the sampling technique. The data were analyzed using the statistical procedures Percentile Analysis and Differential Analysis. The study concluded that there is a significant difference among college students with respect to Gender and Course of study.