Life Skills and Self-Concept of Adolescents

The phase between 12 years and 18 years in human development is commonly considered as the adolescent period. It is a critical phase of development and is the transition period from childhood to adulthood. During adolescence, the students have to develop certain life skills that will help them to grow into caring and responsible adults. Adolescence is also crucial period for formation of individuals self-concept. Life skills help to boost self-concept of adolescents. The present study was conducted to assess the life skills and self-concept of adolescents studying 9th standard in Tirupati town. One hundred students were selected randomly from four high schools (50 boys and 50 girls) using systematic, stratified random sampling technique. Life Skills Self Rating Scale developed by Anuradha (2005) was used to assess the life skills and Self Concept Rating Scale developed by Prathiba Deo (2011) was used to assess the self-concept. The results revealed that adolescents were having moderately good life skills and scored moderate in self-concept scores. Moderate association was found between life skills and fathers education and self-concept score and family income (p