The Effectiveness of Life Skills Training on social adjustment and Bullying Reduction in Tehran Secondary School Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of life skills training on social adjustment and reduction of bullying among students. According to the purpose of this study, the data were collected using a quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population of this study includes all students in the secondary school of Tehran in the academic year of 2018-2019 . The statistical population of this study was 30 people selected by multistage cluster sampling from among the statistical population and randomly divided into two groups (14) And control (n = 14) were used. A social adjustment scale and bulling scale (BS) were used to collect information. For data analysis, descriptive and noninvasive statistics were used. In the descriptive section of frequency, central incidence and dispersion indices, and Inferential analysis of covariance analysis (ANCOVA) was used. The results showed that life skills training is effective on social adjustment in reducing student bullying. According to the findings of this study, it is suggested that a life skills training program should be used as part of in-service training programs for school counselors and other school principals in order to enhance the skills of bullying and aggressive students.