Effects of Life Skills Training on Interpersonal Skills among Secondary School Students

Abstract

Education is the process through which an individual attain all the skills and abilities to adopt to this transforming world. In this journey an individual has to socialize with many people at different stages of life, for that one needs to have proper interpersonal skills. And life skills training program would help everyone to imbibe these interpersonal skills in their life journey. To know the effectiveness of life skills training on interpersonal skills this pretest posttest experimental study was designed. 80 students from ninth standard were selected from Anubhavamantapa school Davanagere district Karnataka state. 80 students were divided into two groups as control group and experimental groups. And pretest was conducted and then experimental group students were given life skills training for a period of 45 days. While the other 40 students were not expressed to training program. Results revealed that experimental groups students who were given life skill straining had better interpersonal skills and maintained good relationship with friends, teachers, siblings and parents. Results revealed that life skills training program helps to attain interpersonal skills to adapt to this quick evolving world.