Effectiveness of Life Skills Training on Subjective Well_Being of the Female Teenagers: Short Report

Life skills include group of skills and abilities which help individuals resolve issues in their lives and control conflicts in interpersonal relationship. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the method of life skill training on subjective well_being of female high school students. This semi-experimental study was conducted as a post test, and two pre-test surveys (at one-month follow up). Statistical population comprised all female high-school students of Rafsanjan city in 2010 and the sampling method was multi-stage cluster sampling. Among 148 students who filled the questionnaires, 30 students who had the least subjective well_being score were randomly separated into two groups of 15 students (here called intervention and control groups). The data was gathered by revised subjective well_being Questionnaire prepared by Molavi in 2008 which involves 39 expressions, from 1 to 5 Likert scale, and also by the researcher’s own questionnaire containing demographic information. The intervention group took part in 8 of 90-minute training sessions and the pre test and one-month follow up scores were then analsyed by co-variance test using SPSS software. The pre- test data from the two groups showed no significant difference, however, the post test and one-month follow up scores were significantly higher than control group (p=0.0001). This difference was also observed in follow up survey (p=0.0001) The results of this study show that life skills training courses can improve the feeling of happiness and life satisfaction.