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| Published: May 29, 2018
The Impact of Decision-Making and Problem-Solving Skills on Mental Health Status among Industrial Workers through Life-Skills Education
B.Sc Medical Sociology Graduate, Pharm D Student, Vinayaka Mission’s Research Foundation, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India
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M.Sc Applied Psychology, University of Kerala, Kariavattomcampus, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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DIP: 18.01.025/20180602
DOI: 10.25215/0602.025
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Background: Essential Skills such as Decision-making and Problem-solving skills training through inculcating Life-skills education have shown a decrease in negative effectively on mental health status in workers. Objective: The study was aimed to examine “the impact of decision-making and problem-solving skills on mental health status among industrial workers through Life-skills education.” Methodology: The research was an experiment with pretest-posttest control group design. A sample of 100 workers was randomly selected from HMT Watches Ltd, Bangalore, India. The sample included an equal number of male (N=50) and female (N=50) workers. The samples were allocated to experimental and control group. Both groups were pre-tested by using research tools, such as mental health scale, decision making, and problem-solving skills self-assessment questionnaires for data collection. Research objectives through hypothesis guided the study. The experimental group received training in decision-making and problem-solving skills through life-skills education for 5 sessions, 2 hours per session per week. Both groups were post-tested, collected data was processed at inferential and descriptive levels using SPSS and for analytic analysis “T” test was used for variables. Findings: Findings of the study indicated that training in decision-making and problem-solving skills significantly found a positive effect on mental health, i.e., increased mental health status relatively reduced mental health problems. Conclusion: Decision-making and Problem-solving skills training through Life-skills education were proved effective in reducing mental health problems by enhancing mental health status.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
2018 © Gopinath S R & Krishnamurthy A R
Received: April 03, 2018; Revision Received: April 15, 2018; Accepted: May 29, 2018
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.025/20180602
10.25215/0602.025
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Published in Volume 06, Issue 2, April-June, 2018