Rooyesh-e- Ravanshenasi Journal(RRJ)

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Introduction: Life skills play important role in promoting mental abilities for regulating emotions, self awareness and social adaption in adolescents. The aim of this study was examination of effectiveness life skills training on emotional disorders (anxiety and depression) among boy high school students in bahmaie. Method: the research is semi-pilot and pretest-posttest type with a control group. Among all high school boy students in Bahmaei 3 schools were chosen  randomly. All student of  third grade from these school were examined by Depression,Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) .Sixty students from whose that received between 42-84,were selected  randomly and they located in  experimental group (30) and control group (30). Life skills training program was held in 10 sessions for students in experimental group. Analysis of covariance was used to examine this hypothesis. Results: analysis of experimental group before and after training revealed significant difference in anxiety (F=8/43 and p<0/005) and depression (F=12/56 and p<0/001). Conclusion: According to this study life skills training reduces anxiety and depression in boy high schools students.
 

Keywords: anxiety, depression, life skills, adolescence

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