The effect of online life skills training on students' academic resilience Parent of a prisoner in the time of Covid 19

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of online life skills training on the academic resilience of students of imprisoned parents in the critical situation of Covid 19. The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest, follow-up and control group. The statistical population of the present study included all students of parents of prisoners under the support of Tehran Welfare in the academic year 1399-1400. By purposeful sampling method, 60 students with low academic resilience scores were selected by the Samuels (2004) Academic Resilience Questionnaire. Students were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received 10 sessions of 90-minute online training of ten life skills according to the model of the World Health Organization (1998) but the control group did not receive any intervention. After completing the training program, post-test and one-month follow-up were taken from both groups. The results of analysis of covariance and t-test showed that there was a significant difference between experimental and control groups in academic resilience and subscales of communication skills, future orientation and problem-oriented (p <0.01) Findings showed that online education of ten life skills was effective in increasing the academic resilience of students of imprisoned parent students in the time of Covid 19 in post-test and follow-up. Therefore, online training of ten life skills in times of crisis 19 can be considered as an effective way to strengthen and increase the academic resilience of students of imprisoned parents.