Effectiveness of life skills training on coping strategies and psychological capital of Female Students

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of life skills training on strategies of coping with stress and psychological capitals of female students. Methodology: The present research was a fundamental and qualitative and experimental -quasi-experimental including pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population consisted of all female high school students in the 4th district of Tehran in the academic year of 1396-97. The sample size and number were estimated to be 30 individuals. Systematized random sampling method was used, but the participants were included in the control and experimental groups. they were randomly assigned (15) person in the experimental and (15) in the control group. The measuring tools included Lazarus's Coping Strategies Scale (1985) and Lutz's Psychological Capital Scale (2007), which subjects completed before and after the life skills training program. Findings: The results showed that life skills training (14.3%) played a significant role in explaining the improvement of problem-focused coping strategy, but it was not effective in improving the emotion-focused coping strategy (P = 0.824). Life skills was 19.7% effective in explaining self-efficacy, 23.2% in explaining hope, and 17.1% in explaining resilience of the experimental group. But there was no significant change was occurred in control group. Conclusion: Based on the findings of the study, it can be concluded that life skills training has been effective on coping strategies and psychological capital of adolescents.