Life skills and adjustment of adolescents (first year students) in the faculty of Nursing, Khon Kaen University

Abstract

The purpose of this descriptive research wasto study the life skills, adjustment of adolescents(first year students) of the faculty of Nursing, KhonKaen University and  the relationship between the lifeskills and the adjustment of the students. The sampleswere 175 first year students enrolled  in  the faculty ofnursing, Khon Kaen  University,   academic  year  2008.The research instruments used in this study werethe  designed  questionnaires   consisting of decisionmaking, self esteem and emotion coping. The adjustmentscales consisted of academic adjustment subscales, socialadjustment subscales, personal emotional adjustmentsubscales and attachment  subscales. The data wereanalyzed by using  SPSS program and  reported  asfrequencies, percentages, means, standard deviation andthe Pearsonûs  product moment correlation coefficient.The results showed that:1. The life skills of adolescents of the facultyof nursing, Khon Kaen University were rather on highlevel, where  emotion  coping  was highest (x =2.92),self esteem (x =2.88) and decision making (x =2.87)respectively.  The total adjustment scale wasconsiderably high (x =3.01).2. There was a significant positive relationshipbetween the life skills and the adjustment (p= 0.01).The life skills  in  emotion  coping  was  most  relatedwith  adjustment ( r = 0.67 ).