Contribution of Youth Programs for Life Skill Development: - The Case of Addis Ababa Youth Association, Lideta Sub City
| dc.contributor.advisor | Asefa, Abebe (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tedla, Abiy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-18T07:45:14Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T12:02:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-18T07:45:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T12:02:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-06 | |
| dc.description.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 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/1170 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | youth program; life skill development; elements of life skill | en_US |
| dc.title | Contribution of Youth Programs for Life Skill Development: - The Case of Addis Ababa Youth Association, Lideta Sub City | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |