Life Skills: Adolescents' Perceptions of Importance and Competence
Titel:
Life Skills: Adolescents' Perceptions of Importance and Competence
Auteur:
Poole, Millicent E. Evans, Glen T.
Verschenen in:
British journal of guidance & counselling
Paginering:
Jaargang 16 (1988) nr. 2 pagina's 129-144
Jaar:
1988-05-01
Inhoud:
A previous classification of life skills was used to suggest issues relating to areas of adolescents' concerns involving relationships, leisure, jobs, education, preparation for the future, work, budgeting, health, social responsibility, and personal skills such as planning and decision-making. A questionnaire relating these concerns to young people's perceptions of the facets of importance, and their own knowledge, competence, sense of improvement, problems, and striving, was administered to a sample of 1,084 adolescents in senior schools and colleges of technical and further education. The results suggested a strong general factor for each facet, with some differentiation into groups of skills. The mean ratings suggested that the skills investigated were considered to be very important by young people, who in general also seemed optimistic about their competence. However, a small proportion expressed serious problems. Responses to the various facets were further examined in terms of group differences — by age, gender, educational context, ethnicity, economic status, and educational expectations. Many small but significant group differences were isolated. Finally, implications are drawn from this related research for schools and colleges in general and for guidance and counselling in particular.
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