Mental health among senior secondary school students in relation to life skills and self-efficacy

Headnote

The present study aimed to investigate the Mental Health of senior secondary school students in relation to Life skills and Self-efficacy. The respondents were students from senior secondary school of Jammu and Kashmir. A sample of 200 senior secondary school students was selected from Jammu and Kashmir by employing simple random sampling. T-test and multiple correlation were employed to analyze the data. The study revealed that (a) mental health of senior secondary school boys and girls is significant, (b) life skills of senior secondary school boys and girls is significant (c) self-efficacy of senior secondary school boys and girls is not significant. It also revealed that there exists a positive relationship between mental health of senior secondary school boys and girls of Jammu and Kashmir with their life skills and self-efficacy.

Keywords: mental health, life skills, self-efficacy, senior secondary school students

Life skills

Life skills are competency for adaptive and positive performance that enables persons to deal efficiently with the challenges and demands of daily life (WHO, 1997). Life skill education aims to give students with approach to make strong choices that give to a consequential life. Life skills are the skills that help to endorse mental well-being and ability in youthful people as they face the reality of life. Life skills assist the young people to acquire positive measures to keep themselves and to uphold meaningful and healthy social connection. It assists an integrated and complete progress of persons to perform successfully as social beings. Life skills can be applied in the contexts of social and health events. Life skills are also being able to create fruitful interpersonal relations with others. Developing life skills help youth to translating attitude, values and knowledge into strong conduct that make their life fruitful. Life skill education is a worth new plan which aims to afford students with approach to make strong choice that give to an important life. Life skills also help adolescents to acquire down with other people and regulate with their surroundings and make accountable conclusion. Life skills help adolescents to recognize their self and to evaluate their abilities, areas and skills of improvement. Golub et al. (2004) examined in their investigation that the training of coping skills caused the improvement of interpersonal relationship...