Enhancement of Emotional Empathy through Life Skills Training among Adolescents Students–A Comparative Study

By : G. Venkatesh Kumar, Ayub Ghasemian

Page No: 177-185

Abstract
The present study is an attempt to study the effect of life skills training intervention on emotional empathy among male and female adolescent students. The sample consisted of equal number of boys and girls, who measured low on emotional empathy, were divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received life skills training intervention, but the control group was kept under observation. The intervention was based on life skills training programme designed by World Health Organization (WHO) that included 8 training sessions of 120 minutes duration. The data was collected after two months of intervention by using Multi Dimensional Emotional Empathy Scale (MDEES) by Caruso and Mayer (1998), which pertains to assess the level of emotional empathy. The results indicated that life skills training has significantly increased emotional empathy of the intervened sample than non intervened sample and gender did not have differential influence over increasing emotional empathy due to life skills training.

Authors :
Ayub Ghasemian : Research Scholar, Department of Studies in Psychology, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri- 570 006, Mysore (India).
G. Venkatesh Kumar : Professor, Department of Studies in Psychology, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri- 570 006, Mysore (India)