The Impact of Life Skills Training on Social Skills and Performance of Secondary School Girl Students

Document Type : Research Paper

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Univercity

Abstract

This study aims to explain the impact of life skills training on social skills and academic performance of female students. The method is experimental with pre and post test. Statistical community includes 60 female students in secondary school year in Marvdasht in the years 1393 – 1394. They were selected based on cluster random sampling. 30 were assigned to experimental and 30 to control group. Thses people were those who got low greads in the social skill questionnaire (Elliot & Gersham, education and performance (Pham &Taylor) which was used that as a tool of this research in the pre test. Life skills training was applied for two months for an average of 90 minutes for the experimental group while the control group received no training. Analyze the data was done on two levels inferential and descriptive. The findings with regard to the test results covariance analysis showed that life skills training has a significant effect on social skills of students as well as on the debris as socialskill and acdemic performance of students.

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