The effect of life skills training on social competence of students

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of life skills training on students' social competence. The research design is experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group. The statistical population of this study includes all fifth and sixth grade students attending primary schools in district 2 of Ahvaz city in 2016-2017, with 3841 people. The data gathering tool was a social competence standard questionnaire by Cohen and Rasman (1972). The research sample was selected through cluster random sampling and then 30 subjects from these eight classes were randomly selected in both experimental and control groups. Then, the experimental period (life skills training) was performed for the experimental group in 12 sessions of 90 minutes, but no training was performed in the control group. After completing the training program, two groups of post-test were performed. Analysis of the research results using spss software and covariance analysis showed that life skills training is effective on increasing social competence.