Effect of life skill training on mental health of Iranian high school students

Pages: 191-195
Naved Iqbal (Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi )
Hassan Rahimi and FahimeRezai (Department of Psychology, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran )
Sarah Alvi (Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi )

Mental health problems are common among Iranian female adolescents and there were conflicting studies regarding the effect of life skill training on mental health. Therefore, present study was aimed at studying the effect of life skill training on mental health in high school female students in Tehran, Iran. Total sample of the present study comprised sixty (60) female students. They were assigned randomly to experimental and control groups. Each group had 30 subjects the experimental group was given Life skill training for 10 days, while the control group was not given such training. Mental health of the Experimental and control group was measured before and after Life skill training. Mental health was measured with the help of the General Health questionnaire developed by Goldberg (1978). It includes the dimensions of physical, anxiety, social dysfunction and depression. ANCOVA was used to analyze the data. Results showed that on all the dimensions of mental health experimental group had scored better than control group on post condition. Thus, life skill training was highly effective in improving mental health of the subjects. Effect size of life skill training on various dimensions of mental health was from moderate to large.