Abstract:
ABSTRACT
The current study was designed to investigate the level of self-awareness by its four
domains and its elevation or enhancement in the young adults by using the basic life skills
manual of UNICEF. It was hypothesized that the self-awareness can be increased by the
application of basic life skills manual of UNICEF. The self-awareness covers four sub-domains
according to the basic life skills manual. It is hypothesized that, there was a significant difference
in all these sub-domains after the application of manual, because these are regulated by or they
regulate self-awareness, according to the manual of UNICEF. For this purpose, 60 participants
with age range of 18-24 were taken from different universities of Lahore, and were divided
equally into control and experimental groups. The manual was implicated on experimental
group, while control group received no intervention. Pre and post assessment was carried out to
check the effectiveness of this intervention. Assessment tools, Coping Scale (Hamby, Grych, &
Banyard, 2013) (used for stress management) for the assessment of management and handling
the stress, Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (by Gross & John 2003), Self-esteem scale by
Rosenberg (1965) and Positive Thinking Scale by (Diener et al., 2009) were used. Normality of
data was assessed. Descriptive statistics, reliability analysis and Multivariate Analysis of
variance was carried out for the results. For the follow up analysis of Multivariate Analysis of
variance, discriminant functional analysis was carried out and it reconfirmed the authenticity of
the results. Results of the study showed that there was a highly significant difference in pre and
post scores of experimental group on all sub-domains or variables (self-esteem, stress
management, positive thinking, and emotional regulation) after the implementation of
intervention. Experimental group showed significant results of intervention and all the
hypothesis supported the experimental group findings. Follow up was carried out, which showed
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or reconfirmed the effectiveness of intervention. In other words, basic life skills training program
was highly effective in increasing the self-awareness. Results were reported according to the
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