The effectiveness of training life skills on mental health and self-esteem of students

The current research was conducted with the aim of the effectiveness of training life skills on the students’ mental health and self-esteem. The research population includes all the PNU students, Saghez branch who were studying in the educational year of 2013-2014. In this research 40 students were selected through the random sampling method available as the research sample volume. Here,20 students were selected through random sampling method available as the research sample volume that participated in the educational workshop of life skill and 20 more students were selected as the control group. The method applied in this research is semi empirical with two groups of experimental and control. The experimental group was placed under 8, 120 minute sessions of training life skills. To collect data the Goldberg 28 question general health questionnaire and the Copper Smith 58 question self-esteem questionnaire were used. To analyze data, the descriptive statistics (average, standard deviation,…) as well as inferential statistics (covariance analysis) were applied. Results indicated that the average mental health scores in the experimental group s posttest are lower than that of the posttest in the control group. Also, the average self-esteem scores in the experimental group s posttest are higher than that of the posttest in the control group. It is, thus, concluded that training life skills is influential in promoting the mental health and self-esteem of the students.

کلیدواژه ها:

Training life skills ، mental health ، Self-esteem