Contribution of Youth Programs for Life Skill Development: - The Case of Addis Ababa Youth Association, Lideta Sub City
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2014-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
In the last couple of decades, life skill education was considered as one intervention program in
youth development initiatives. Life skill development was viewed as an important intervention
for youths to develop resilience and collective personality. This study was a quantitative research
that employed quasi experimental design with retrospective analyses of life skill. Besides, it was
based on Hendricks (1998) Model of Targeting Life Skill.This research was conducted on Addis
Ababa Youth Association at Lideta Sub city and has examined life skill development in three
features The first features of this study look at the contribution of selected youth development
programs for life skill development and found that the program has significant effect for all
elements of life skill except for healthy life style choice. The second aspect of this paper has
studied the influence of personal characteristics, program type & political affiliation on elements
of life skill and the result of the study indicates that the aforementioned variables have an effect
on various elements of life skill at different level. The third dimension of this study researched
the most important influential bodies in due process of developing selected elements of life skill.
The result of the study portrays that family comes first and followed by the youth Association,
School, friends and others respectively
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youth program; life skill development; elements of life skill