The Effectiveness of Life Skills Training with Islamic Approach on Epistemological Beliefs and Psychological Well-Being of male students

The aim of this study was to definition the effectiveness of life skills training with Islamic approach on epistemological beliefs and psychological well-being of male students and the method is a semi-experimental research with pretest-posttest design with control group. second secondary school male students in Qom city in 2018-2019, 40 male students were selected based on the entry students available and randomly assigned in to one therapeutic group (with 20 people) and a control group (with 20 people).The data gathering tool was Schommer's epistemological beliefs (1990), Ryff psychological well-being questionnaire (1989). Also, in the experimental group, an educational package of life skills training with Islamic approach was implemented for 8 sessions of 90 minutes, however, the control group received no intervention. Data were analyzed using of spss19 and through single-variable and multivariate analysis of covariance. The findings showed that life skills training with Islamic approach have a significant effect on epistemological beliefs and only on two sub-components of it (the inherent ability of learning and learning fast) and on psychological well-being and all sub-components of it (autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, communication Positive affirmation with others, purposefulness in life and admission) of male students have a significant effect (p ≤0.05).