"Exploring Life Skills, Self-Efficacy, and Academic Performance Among Tribal and Non-Tribal Adolescents: A Gender-Based Comparison"

Life-Skills Education as defined by the UNICEF is "a behaviour change or behaviour change approach to address a balance of three areas: knowledge, attitude and skills". Life Skills empower individuals to translate knowledge, attitude and values into actual abilities, that is, what to do and how to do it, given the scope and opportunity to do so. The purpose of this study is to comparison of Life skills, Self-efficacy and Academic achievement of Tribal and Non-tribal adolescents. The research was carried out in District Samba of J & K on a sample of 304 IX standard students. The Life skills of students was measured by Life skills scale prepared by Dr. Chandra & Ms. Ayushi Tripathi (2019). Self-efficacy was measured by the self-efficacy scale prepared by Dr. Sarita & Ms. Nirmala Kumari (2018). t-test was used for the hypothesis testing. The research finding indicates that life skills and self-efficacy of Non tribal adolescents among Higher secondary school students is significantly better than those of the Tribal adolescents. The difference was not significant in the level of acquired life skills among Tribal and Non tribal male adolescents. Also, in the case of dimension of social, Academic and Spiritual self-efficacy, there was no significant difference among Tribal and Non- tribal male adolescents. In the case of female, the difference was not significant in Academic and Spiritual self-efficacy among Tribal and Non-Tribal female adolescents. Further, it can also be highlighted that there was significant difference in the Academic Achievement of Tribal and Non tribal adolescents.