Life Skills of Secondary School Girl Students in Relation to their Academic Anxiety

Abstract

The aim of education is holistic development of an individual. But, our present education system has fuelled academic anxiety among the students. This has led to many personality disorders among them. They are not able to meet the real challenges of the world that are beyond their academic life. Such students are having lacking of the life skills that are essential for daily life. Everyone is struggling with problems and suffers to find the ways to meet the challenges in life. It is essential that everyone masters those basic life skills to solve their problems in daily life. Hence the present study was intended to study the relationship between life skills and academic anxiety of secondary school girl students. Descriptive survey method was used for the present study. The sample used in the present study was 50 secondary school girl students from Kanya Gurukul Senior Secondary School, Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat district. The tools used for the study were Life Skill Scale – Developed by Dr. M.N. Vranda (2009) and Academic Anxiety Scale – Dr. A. K. Singh and Dr. A. Sen Gupta (2012).  Analysis of the data was done by using Pearson’s product moment of correlation coefficient. The study revealed that there is a substantial negative correlation exists.