The Effectiveness of Life Skills Training on Anger Management and Resilience in Adolescents

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of life skills training on adolescents' anger management and resilience.

This quasi-experimental study was performed with experimental and control groups and pre-test, post-test design with a one-month follow-up. The statistical population was female students referred to the West Tehran Education Counseling Center in the academic year of 2017-18. After screening, a sample of 30 people was randomly selected and replaced in experimental and control groups. The Life Skills Training Program provided by WHO (1998) was conducted in 10 90-minute sessions as a group for the experimental group, and the control group was placed on a waiting list. Both groups responded to the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (Spielberger, 1999) and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) (2001) before and after the experiment and were reassessed after one month. The repeated-measures ANOVA was used to analyze the obtained data.

The results showed that life skills training significantly reduced anger (F = 6.04, p = 0.02). This training significantly increased the resilience rate (F = 13.95, p = 0.001) in students, and these results were stable in the follow-up phase.

Life skills training can be considered an effective way to strengthen and increase students' anger management and resilience.