Thesis:

The effect of life skills training on social intelligence and emotional intelligence of sixth grade female students in Sabzevar city

This study aimed to investigate the effect of life skills training on social intelligence and emotional intelligence of sixth grade female elementary school students in Sabzevar city. This study is a semi-experimental study using a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The population of the present study consisted of all 381 sixth grade female elementary school students in Sabzevar city. Of these students, 40 were selected based on stratified sampling and among the students who were willing to cooperate and based on the inclusion criteria. In this study, the Life Skills Training Program (Klinke, 1999) and the World Health Organization (Fathi et al.) were used. Two questionnaires, Tromso Social Intelligence (2001) and Petrides and Farnham Emotional Intelligence (2004), were used to collect data. In this study, the data were analyzed using SPSS 24 software. Which included the coefficients of skewness and elongation to examine the normality of the research variables and the assumptions of covariance and covariance test. The results showed that the independent variable of life skills training had a significant effect on the variables of social intelligence and emotional intelligence, which caused a significant increase in the mean scores of social intelligence and emotional intelligence in the post-test of the experimental group compared to the control group. According to the eta square, it can be said that 30.1 and 31.7 percent of the difference between the adjusted post-test scores of social intelligence and emotional intelligence in the control and experimental groups, respectively, is explained by life skills training.

Keywords: Keywords: Elementary school students, emotional intelligence, emotional intelligence, life skills