The effectiveness of life skills training on improving frustration tolerance and irritability in obese people

obesity has become a serious concern for public health, which will lead to many risk factors; The main purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of life skills on tolerance of failure, marital heartbreak and irritability in obese people.Research

The design of this semi-experimental research was of pre-test-post-test type. The statistical population of this research included all obese people referred to obesity clinic of Ghadir Mother and Child Hospital, simple random sampling method was selected and these people were randomly assigned to two control groups (30 people) and experiment (30 people) was assigned. For the experimental group, 10 sessions (60 minutes each session) of the life skills training course were conducted to collect information from Harrington's frustration tolerance questionnaires and Bass and Plomin's irritability questionnaires. The data were analyzed by multivariate covariance analysis and spss version 26 software.

The results indicated that the significance level of the statistical test of multivariate covariance analysis is smaller than the significance level (0.05); Therefore, there is a significant difference between failure tolerance and irritability of the two groups in the post-test phase, in other words, life skills training has a significant effect on improving failure tolerance and irritability in obese people.

Therefore, teaching life skills by improving and increasing failure tolerance of obese people can make them feel less frustrated and lonely. These people can have more control over their anger and stress and are able to share their needs, desires and interests with others.