The effect of teaching thinking skills on students' life expectancy and social adjustment

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of teaching thinking skills on life expectancy and social adjustment of female secondary school students. The research was of a quasi-experimental type with a two-group pre-test and post-test design. The statistical population was 3000 female high school students in Kermanshah. The statistical sample size was 50 people (25 people in the experimental group and 25 people in the control group) who were selected by random cluster sampling. After matching the groups according to the dependent variables, the experimental group was trained according to the relevant protocol in 10 sessions, and after the sessions, the post-test scores were analyzed using statistical tests of analysis of covariance in the SPSS24 software environment. The data collection tool included two social adjustment questionnaires (SAS) (1999) and life expectancy questionnaire (Halajian 2019). The findings of the research are: teaching thinking skills increases the life expectancy and social adjustment of students, so to achieve the life expectancy and social adjustment of students can be done by teaching thinking skills.