The Effectiveness of Social Skills Training on Fourth Dimensional Components of Capital Psychology (Resilience, Hope, Optimism and Self-efficacy) High School Girl Studentsstudents

investigate the effectiveness of social skills training on the four components (hope, optimism, resilience, & self-efficacy) of psychological capital among high school female students. The experimental design was a pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population was all female high school students in district 4 of Tehran during the academic year of 2014-2015, among them 42 students from 2 high schools were selected by random cluster sampling and randomly assigned to two groups (control and experiment) of 21 people. Data were collected by Lutan's Psychological Capital Questionnaire (2007). The ratio X² of this test is 4/6. The experimental group was trained in 10 sessions of social skills training and during these sessions, no training was given to the control group. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and one-variable covariance analysis and the mean of the control and experimental group in the pretest was not significantly different.But In the post-test, the mean of the experimental group was greater than the control group, and shows that social skills training has a positive and significant effect on the four components of student's psychological capital. (p education system to empower people in confronting challenges and the changes in life in the current society needs to develop the psychological capital of its students which can be done by teaching social skills.