The Effectiveness of Life Skills Training on the Improvement of Students' Life Quality

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Maryam Mahmoodi ¹ , Kiyanoosh Zahrakar ² , Hassan Shabani ³

1 - MA in Counseling
2 - PhD Kharazmi University Tehran-Iran
3 - PhD Islamic Azad University Eslamshahr Branch

Received: 2015-07-10 Accepted : 2015-07-10 Published : 2013-09-23

Keywords: university student, : life skills, Life quality,

Abstract :

The aim of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of life skills training program on the improvement of students’ life quality.The pretest-posttest with control group design was used. Thirty students with the lowest score in the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36; Warosherbon,1992) were selected from management and accounting faculty of EslamShahr branch of Islamic Azad University in 2011-2012 academic year. The participants were randomly assigned to either experimental or control groups. The experimental group received nine life skills training sessions weekly for 90 mintues.The results of covariance analysis indicated that the life skills training program increased the mental and physical healths of the students significantly. The findings suggested the effects of life skills training on improving the life quality of the students.