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| Published: May 31, 2024

Life Skills of Senior Secondary School Students in Relation to their Academic Achievement

Dr. Anju Bala

Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.249.20241202

DOI: 10.25215/1202.249

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In present era, there is a need to develop more life skills as people are facing emotional instability, unemployment, lack of attention, imbalance in personal relationship conflict and self-doubt. The aim of this research paper was to access the levels of life skills and academic achievement and find out the relationship between life skills and academic achievements of senior secondary school students in Sonepat District. Descriptive survey method was use for present paper. This study was conducted on a sample of 100 senior secondary school students. Life skills Assessment scale (2014) by Nair, Subasree and Sunitha was used by the researchers to collect the data. Data was analyzed by using percentage, Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation method, mean, S.D.  and t-test.  The results indicated nearly half of the senior secondary school students were average in their life skills and more than half of the students were having average level of academic achievement. A positive significant relationship was found between life skills and academic achievement of senior secondary school students. Boys found higher than that of girls of senior secondary school w.r.t. their life skills. Girls found higher than that of boys of senior secondary school w.r.t. their academic achievement. Boys and girls were significantly differed in their life skills and academic achievement.  The study suggested implementations of new methods and training programmes to enhance life skills and academic achievement of senior secondary school students.

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ISSN 2348-5396

ISSN 2349-3429

18.01.249.20241202

10.25215/1202.249

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Published in   Volume 12, Issue 2, April-June, 2024