Awareness of Life Skill Among Post Graduate Students of Mayurbhanj District

Itismita Behera

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i05.90238

Awareness of Life Skill Among Post Graduate Students of Mayurbhanj District

Author(s)	Ms. Itismita Behera
Country	India
Abstract	Life skills are psychosocial, cognitive, emotional and interpersonal abilities that help individuals respond constructively to everyday demands and challenges. In higher education, postgraduate students face academic deadlines, research expectations, career uncertainty, changing relationships and pressure to make consequential decisions. Awareness of life skills is therefore an important educational concern, not merely an adjunct to academic achievement. This article reports a descriptive survey of life-skills awareness among postgraduate students of Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo (MSCB) University, Baripada, Mayurbhanj, Odisha. The study focused on differences by gender and academic stream. The source thesis reports a population of 1,000 postgraduate students and a simple random sample of 100 students: 42 male and 58 female students, including 59 from science and 41 from arts. Data were collected through a researcher-developed 30-item Life Skills Awareness Scale, reviewed by the research supervisor and administered as a five-point rating scale through Google Forms. Mean, standard deviation and independent-samples t-tests were used. Male students recorded a mean of 109.04 (SD = 6.68), compared with 108.34 (SD = 8.97) among female students; the reported t value was 0.44. Science students recorded a mean of 109.23 (SD = 8.43), while arts students recorded 107.65 (SD = 7.82); the reported t value was 0.96. Neither difference was statistically significant at the .05 or .01 level. The findings suggest that awareness scores in this sample were broadly similar across the two comparison groups. The article discusses implications for curriculum design, counselling, student support and inclusive life-skills education, while acknowledging the limitations of a small, single-university sample and a self-report measure. The findings should be interpreted as sample-specific and should not be generalized to all postgraduate students in Odisha without further research.
Keywords	life skills, life-skills awareness, postgraduate students, higher education
Field	Sociology > Education
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 5, September-October 2026
Published On	2026-10-22
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i05.90238

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