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- Fostering Resilience among Children: A Life Skills Intervention
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1 School of Life Skills Education, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Chennai, IN
2 Officer on Special Duty to Minister of State at Ministry of Labour, Government of India, IN
3 School of Psychology and Social Work Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia, MY
1 School of Life Skills Education, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Chennai, IN
2 Officer on Special Duty to Minister of State at Ministry of Labour, Government of India, IN
3 School of Psychology and Social Work Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia, MY
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Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol 4, No 4 (2013), Pagination: 518-520Abstract
The promotion of Child Mental Health can lead to prevention of mental illness. 'Life Skills Education is a proven method for promoting mental health. This indicates that life skills education is required by young people for their holistic development and hence it should be imparted. Well designed, tested and delivered life skills programmes can achieve much in helping children and adolescents become more responsible, healthy and resilient both during childhood and as adults. The concept of resilience emerged in the psychiatric literature in the 1980's, in an attempt to understand individual differences in their responses to stress and adversity, which has a direct linkage with wellbeing. Resilience and Life Skills Training are topics of interests to school psychologists, yet little is known about the relationships among the two. It was hypothesized that resilience would mediate the relationship with Life Skills. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of Life Skills Training for fostering Resilience. The training was conducted over a period of 30 days for 60 min per day. A total of 15 students participated in the training programe. Wagnild and Young's Resilience Scale was utilized for assessing the resilience before and after the training programme. The result of the training indicates a positive effect on life skills training for fostering resilience. The statistical analysis also indicates that there is an improvement in the level of resilience on the experimental group.Keywords
Life Skills, Life Skills Training, Resilience, Wellbeing
- Effect of Life Skills Training on Fear of Negative Evaluation and Self-Image among School Adolescents
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1 Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN
2 Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
3 ECF-Tata STRIVE, IN
1 Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN
2 Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
3 ECF-Tata STRIVE, IN
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Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol 9, No 1 (2018), Pagination: 193-195Abstract
Fear of Negative Evaluation and issues with self-image could be two potential threats to school adolescents. A great deal of research has described associations between fears of negative evaluation self-image among adolescents which will, in turn, affect the psychosocial development of adolescents. From the extensive review of the literature, it can be concluded that life skills training is an effective tool to deal with a range of adolescent's issues. The main objective of this study is to assess the effect of life skill training on fear of negative evaluation and self-image among school adolescents. The current study is a quasi-experimental study conducted among 47 school adolescents who score low in self-esteem scale. The study indicates that life skills training were very effective in dealing with the fear of negative evaluation and self-image.Keywords
Life Skills Training, Fear of Negative Evaluation, Self-Image, School Adolescents.References
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