The study of the effect of life skills training on students' mental health and self-esteem
2015
From the educational perspective, teen years is the most difficult period of human life .It is a transition from childhood to adulthood in which contemporarily with social, emotional and physical changes, self-esteem and self-respect have been completed. Due to special problems in this age and internal and environmental challenges in this period, one of the most important individual's characteristics , it means self-esteem, encounters problem. The purpose of this article is to study the effect of life skills training on high school girl students' mental health and self-esteem in Qom city. Method: The research method is semi-experimental with pretest, post test and control group. The population are all high school students in grade three in Qom city. The sampling method was classified random one and 100 student were allocated to experimental and control groups. The measures were Coldberg's mental health and Coopersmith's self-esteem . To analyze the data, SPSS ,descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and independent test were used. Findings: The results showed that the training of mental health life skills on physical signs, anxiety and insomnia is significant , but it is not meaningful on social inactivation and depression. Life skills training is significant on self-esteem as a whole , social self-esteem and educational self-esteem but not on familial self-esteem. Conclusion: Individuals with better life skills in the society can better express themselves and it leads to improve self-esteem. Therefore, it seems that with the use of social skills to adolescents, their positive self-concept and self-esteem will increase. Key words : life skills training, mental health, self-esteem
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