Investigating the Effect of Social Skills Training on Happiness, Academic Resilience and Self-Efficacy of Girl Students

The main aim of this study is to investigate the effect of social skills training on happiness, self-efficacy and academic resilience in girl students. The statistical population of the present study included all girl high school students in Tehran. A total of 30 students were randomly selected as the statistical sample of the study and were included in two groups of experiment and control. The experimental group received 8 sessions of group social skills training during 2 months. Subjects were assessed through the Matson Social Skills Questionnaire (1983), Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (2001), Morgan-Jinks Academic Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (1999), and Samuels Academic Resilience Questionnaire (2004). Data were analyzed at two levels of descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of these analyses were examined separately for each hypothesis. At the inferential statistical level, Shapiro-Wilk's statistical test was used to test the normal distribution of the variables, Bartlett's test of sphericity was used to examine the correlation between dependent variables and multivariate tests were used to examine the differences between independent variables in groups. After moderating the effects of the pre-test according to the results, social skills training had an effect on increasing happiness, self-efficacy and academic resilience in girl students.