The Impact of Life Skills Training on Psychological Well-Being:The Role of Gender Differences

This paper is a partial work of the role of life skills training on enabling the psychological well-being of visually challenged high school students. The original work is an experimental study through matched design method. Objectives: In this paper, the focus is on the impact of life skills training on the psychological well-being of boy s and girls as a separate analysis as well as the differences between them. 15 girls and 16 boys were participated in life skills training program in the residential blind school. Psychological well-being tests were administered (SCWBS and Ryffs PWB) before and after life skills training, which were conducted once a week, stretched for approximately six months. The follow up tests were administered after seventy days of the post training tests administered. Repeated measures ANOVA was employed to analyse the data. R-ANOVA table shows that in SCWBS, F ratio is significant in girls score [ F.05 (2,28)=5.34, p<0.05] and boys it is not significant f F.05 (2,30)=2.08, p>0.05]. However, Ryffs PWB, both the gender showed significant improvement {girls: [ F.05 (2,28)=5.85, p<0.05 and boys [ F.05 (2,30)=7.62, p<0.05]} in their psychological well-being score of post life skills training compared to pre tests. Post hoc measures and effect size were also calculated and explained.