Dimensional Analysis of Life Orientation in Higher Secondary School Students

This study tried to find the existence of any significant difference in the dimensions of the construct Life Orientation, in higher secondary school students. For this purpose, the Life Orientation Test – Revised (LOT –R) for college students prepared by Scheier, M. F., Carver, C. S., & Bridges, M. W. (1994) was administered on 100 urban girl students of class XI of a junior college in Banjara Hills of Hyderabad city, Telangana, India. For data analysis, measures like mean, standard deviation were used. As part of the use of inferential statistics, paired t test was carried out and the level of significance was chosen to be 0.01, using SPSS ver.20. Significant difference was found between the dimensions of life orientation construct.