Does Life Skills Help to Cope with Wellbeing ?
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Abstract
The present study is conducted on tribal adolescent students of Surguja district of Chhattisgarh state to find out how they use their Life Skills to cope with their Well – Being. For this purpose three tribes Oraon, Kanwar and Gond were chosen by the investigator and the tool used for the study is a self made Life Skill inventory, that is, “An inventory of conventional adaptation to life skills in tribal students”, developed for which, 10 dimensions of Life Skills were taken they are; (1) Seeking Social Support, (2)
Problem Solving, (3) Self Blame, (4) Keep to Self, (5) Tension Reduction, (6) Conflict, (7)
Social Action, (8) Spiritual Support, (9) Physical Recreation, and (10) Professional Help.
PGI General Wellbeing Measure scale developed by Verma and Verma is also used to
measure Wellbeing. The result indicated that the dimensions of Life Skill, ‘Keep to self’,
and ‘Conflict’, ‘Social Action’, ‘Spiritual Support’, ‘Physical Recreation’, and ‘Professional Help’ are influencing the Well – Being of tribal Adolescents. While ‘Seeking social
support’, ‘Problem solving’, ‘self blame’ and ‘Tension reduction’ are not affecting Wellbeing
of students
Problem Solving, (3) Self Blame, (4) Keep to Self, (5) Tension Reduction, (6) Conflict, (7)
Social Action, (8) Spiritual Support, (9) Physical Recreation, and (10) Professional Help.
PGI General Wellbeing Measure scale developed by Verma and Verma is also used to
measure Wellbeing. The result indicated that the dimensions of Life Skill, ‘Keep to self’,
and ‘Conflict’, ‘Social Action’, ‘Spiritual Support’, ‘Physical Recreation’, and ‘Professional Help’ are influencing the Well – Being of tribal Adolescents. While ‘Seeking social
support’, ‘Problem solving’, ‘self blame’ and ‘Tension reduction’ are not affecting Wellbeing
of students
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Louis, I. R., & Subramanyam, V. (2015). Does Life Skills Help to Cope with Wellbeing ?. Mind and Society, 4(01), 28–32. Retrieved from https://mindandsociety.in/index.php/MAS/article/view/304
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