Assistant Professor, Department of Education, V.M.L.G. College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, Email id: sshalini_78@rediffmail.com
Every child is born with a number of innate tendencies, impulses and drives. If these impulses and drives remain uncontrolled, these can lead to haphazard, purposeless and disorganised way of life. So, the purpose of providing education becomes more important. Education enables an individual to live his life efficiently and purposefully. Each individual sets his goals of life. These goals of life are achieved through certain characteristics. These characteristics are known as ‘life skills'. Through the study, following results were drawn-girls possess more life skills than boys, anxiety hinders academic performance through retardation, girls are more anxious than boys, students who are better in life skill score better in examinations due to less academic anxiety, government school students are more anxious than public school students.
Academic anxiety, Coping skills, Life skills, Lower secondary students, Negotiation skills, Social skills, Thinking skills
