IMPACT OF ADJUSTMENT AND FAMILY COMPOSITION ON LIFE SKILLS AMONG THE ADOLESCENTS

Research Background: Adjustment, life skills, and family composition are closely interconnected in adolescent development. A supportive family composition, whether nuclear or joint, provides the emotional, social, and cognitive environment that influences how adolescents adjust to life challenges. That way in this study, find out the impact of emotional intelligence and educational medium on academic anxiety of the adolescents.  

Objectives: The study objective was to find out the effect of level of adjustment on life skills of adolescents. Another objective was to examine the effect of family composition on life skills of adolescents. Further, the objective was to study the significant interaction effect between level of adjustment and family composition on the life skills of adolescents.

Procedure: The study one hundred sixty adolescent were selected from the society. Out of them, eighty adolescents were selected from batter adjustment level, and same way, eighty adolescents were selected from poor adjustment level. The purposive sampling technique has been used for the selection of the samples. The study adjustment and family composition were independent variables and life skills was dependent variable. The study Adjustment Inventory developed by P. Kumar and Life Skills Scale by Chandra Kumari and Ayushi Tripathi has been used.     

Conclusions: It can be concluded that adolescents of better adjustment found excellent life skills than adolescents of poor adjustment. Adolescents of joint family composition and nuclear family composition show equal on their life skills. Additionally, no significant interaction effect was found between adjustment and family composition on the life skills of adolescents.