The effect of life skills training on the anxiety and aggression of martyr,s wives

Subject Areas : Sport Management

مهناز  Mehrabizadeh Honarmand ¹ (Professor in Psychology in Islamic Azad University (Ahvaz Branch))
لیلا  Garavand ² (M.A. in Cannselling I.A.U. (Khuzestan Ssiences & Research Branch))
سوره  Arzi ³ (B.A. in Library Science, I.A.U. (Roodhen Branch))

Received: 2016-06-05 Accepted : 2016-06-05 Published : 2009-09-23

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Abstract :

The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of life skills training on the anxiety and aggression of martyr's wives who were selected by simple random sampling method form the martyr Foundation in Poldokhtar. They were divided into two groups: experimental and control groups. The research instruments were Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire. The research design was pretest-post test with control group. After randomly choosing the experimental and control groups, the experimental intervention (life skills training) was done on the experimental group during 8 sessions, each session 90 minutes, one sessions per week. When training plane finished completely, the post test was taken from the each group. The results showed that life skills training reduced anxiety and aggression of martyr's wives of the experimental group in comparison with the control group.