Explaining the Function of Life Skills Education in Enhancing Students’ Academic Resilience
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Life skills education, academic resilience, students, mental health, school-based interventionAbstract
This study aimed to explain the conceptual and functional role of life skills education in strengthening students’ academic resilience based on a systematic qualitative synthesis of existing research evidence. This qualitative study employed an interpretive analytical review design. Fifteen peer-reviewed studies related to life skills education and academic resilience were purposively selected. Data were collected exclusively through literature review and analyzed using inductive qualitative content analysis. All documents were coded and managed in NVivo version 14, and data collection and analysis continued until theoretical saturation was achieved. The results revealed that life skills education enhances academic resilience through four major pathways: psychological empowerment, strengthening social and communication competencies, development of adaptive academic strategies, and reinforcement of psychological foundations of resilience. These processes contribute to higher levels of self-efficacy, academic motivation, emotional regulation, sense of meaning, academic hope, and sustained perseverance in the face of educational challenges. Life skills education functions as a fundamental and sustainable intervention that reconstructs students’ psychological and social capacities and institutionalizes academic resilience as a stable developmental outcome.
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