The effectiveness of life skills training on academic resilience and academic hope of high school students
Background. Life skills training programs are held with the aim of improving the level of mental and physical health and preventing mental, physical and social injuries. On the other hand, the challenges of schooling provide sources of stress for students and endanger their mental health and sometimes affect their ability to learn. Therefore, having skills in students to cope positively with these changes Attention is drawn. Purpose. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of life skills training on increasing students' academic hope and academic resilience. Method. The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The study population included all female students in Tehran, from which 52 people from one school were randomly selected and randomly transferred to two experimental and control groups (26 people in each group) Pre-test and post-test were performed using Academic Resilience Questionnaire (Samuels, 2004) and Academic Hope Questionnaire (Campbell and Cohan ,2001) and then the experimental group was trained in life skills for 10 sessions of one and a half hours. Findings. Multivariate analysis of covariance showed that there was a significant difference between pre-test and post-test in scores of academic hope, academic resilience, communication skills variable, future orientation and problem-oriented experimental group and control (p <0.0001). Conclusion. Interventions based on life skills training are effective in empowering and increasing students' academic hope and resilience due to increasing self-confidence, decision-making power, self-concept, communication skills, courage, decision-making ability and emotion management.