EFFECTIVENESS OF TRAINING LIFE SKILLS ON CONFRONTING ABILITY OF WOMEN WHO PARTICIPATE IN NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE MUNICIPALITY OF TEHRAN, REGION

Abstract

Life skills is a process that train human the way of life in the community and interacting with people,
Give character and identity to the individual and it develops his capacity as members of society to
perform the tasks individually.
The present research has done for the effectiveness of training life skills on confronting ability of
women participating in the neighborhoods houses of Tehran municipality, region 1.
The present study is quasi-experimental and takes pre-test - post-test with experimental and control
groups. A sample of study is 40 women older than 18 years residing in the municipal of Tehran,
region 1 who participate in classes in neighborhoods houses based on Individual’s test scores who
were getting low scores in confronting strategies tests, and randomly selected and divided into two
experimental and control groups (each group has 20 people) pretests were taken by two group.
The tool used in this study included questionnaire about Lazarus and Folkman’s confronting
strategies. In this study, the experimental group was trained life skills program for 8 sessions, one
session per week, and control group did not receive training. After training, both groups confronting
ability were evaluated. The findings and results of covariance analysis showed that the effect of
training life skills on confronting ability and their subscales were significant (05/0> P)