Effectiveness of life skills training on coping with stress

The present research was aimed to study the effectiveness of life skills training on the style of coping with stress among first grade high school female students in region 2 of Tehran. The present investigation was practical in terms of objectives. Moreover, it was a quasi-experimental research with pretest-posttest plan among control group and random assignment in terms of data collection. The population consisted of all the first grade high school female students among whom 40 individuals were chosen as a sample size in two experimental (20 persons) and control (20 persons) groups using random sampling technique. The experimental group was trained for 8 sessions in the area of life skills and the control group received no treatment. The questionnaire of styles of coping with stress of Lazarus & Folkman (1974) was used in order to collect data which the Cronbach's alpha method was used to investigate the questionnaire's reliability and the values were obtained more than 0.7 for the questionnaires. Moreover, content validity was employed to check the validity which the questionnaire was approved by the relevant experts for this purpose. Data analysis was carried out in two descriptive and inferential sections. The findings indicated that life skills training results in increasing task-oriented coping style and reducing emotion-oriented coping style in students.