Effect of a course of life skills program training on the adolescents of interpersonal problems

life skills training program is an effective way to improve the personality and mental health of adolescents. In the other hand, Interpersonal problems are among the most important factors of affecting personality development and psychological disorders in adolescents, therefore, the research aimed to focus on the effect of life skills training program on the adolescent's Interpersonal problems in Bojnourd high school students.
The research was performed by employing pretest and posttest experimental design. 48 high school students were selected through random multi cluster sampling method. Then they randomly assigned to control and experiment group. The experimental groupreceived10 sessions ‘life skills training. Both groups completed the short form of cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (Garnfsky, Kraaij and Aspinhavn, 1390) before and after the intervention. The data was analyzed by Analysis of Covariance (Ancova).
Finding: finding reveals that life skills training program affected the student’s interpersonal problems (F=2.60, p=0/03). Also there was a significant difference between the mean score of Hard to be sociable, difficulty in assertiveness, high aggression, large aperture, the problem of supporting cast, the problem of intimacy, sacrifice a lot, and excessive, in experimental and control group. Consequently finding display that life skills training had significant impact on student's interpersonal problems.
interventions based on life skills training is the fundamental core of interpersonal problems because it can improve self-esteem, decision making skills, assertiveness and self-concept of adolescents and let them improve their psychological and emotional capabilities through designing effective intervention programs.