Effect of life skills training on self- monitoring, Spiritual Health and Academic Optimism

The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of life skills training on self-monitoring, spiritual health, and academic optimism.

The research method was pretest-posttest with control group. The statistical population of the study was all male and female students of secondary school in Karaj in the school year of 99-98. 100 students (50 girls and 50 boys) were selected using cluster sampling method. Spiritual, self-monitoring, and academic optimism responded. Then, based on the questionnaire scores, 50 of those who scored lower on the cut-off point in the spiritual health, academic optimism and self-monitoring questionnaire were selected as the sample of the study and randomly divided into two control groups (n = 25) and Experiments (n = 25) were inserted. The experimental group received eight 90-minute sessions of life skills training. But the control group did not receive the training. After the training, data analysis was done using SPSS22 software and covariance analysis.

The results showed that life skills training increased students' self-supervision (p> 0.001), spiritual health (p> 0.001) and academic optimism (p> 0.001).

Life skills training is effective on self-monitoring, spiritual health and academic- optimism.