background and aims: life skills involve a big class of socio-psychological and interpersonal skills which help a person to take conscious decisions, communicate effectively and improve self-management skills. preparing a plan for all the above mentioned programs, need awareness about life skills level of different groups such as students in universities. present study was aimed to reveal the p...

BACKGROUND Heart failure (HF) patient education aims to foster patients' self-management skills. These are assumed to bring about, in turn, improvements in distal outcomes such as quality of life. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that change in self-reported self-management skills observed after participation in self-management education predicts changes in physical and ment...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to develop a scale to measure life skills and to assess the levels of life skills in adolescents of a secondary school at Kathmandu. METHODOLOGY A descriptive, cross sectional survey of adolescents from class VIII, IX, and X of a public co-educational secondary school of Kathmandu was done with the help of self-administered questionnaires prepared in ...

Based on the 1922–1991 Terman data of children with high ability, I investigate the effects of childhood cognitive skills, socioemotional skills, and post-compulsory education on longevity using factor-analytic methodology similar to that in Heckman et al. (2006). For men, I find strong effects of socioemotional skills and education on longevity and an interaction between education and the skil...

BACKGROUND Life skills have different effects on various aspects of the mental health. Social adjustment prepares adolescents for entering to the adulthood. On the other hand, humor and joking in the education is considered as a stress reducer and learning increaser. Therefore, the present study conducted aimed to determine the effect of acquiring life skills through humor on the social adjustm...