The role of life skills and self-efficacy in mental health among male students in High school

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of life skills and self-efficacy in mental health secondary school students in Ardabil in the 2014-2015 school years. Research In terms of purpose, was functional and in terms of method was correlational. The population of this research was the secondary school students in Ardabil, with the number of 4067 people. For sampling, stratified random sampling method was used and the sample size of 351 patients was selected based on Morgan table. To collect data for statistical sampling the questionnaire (selfeducation (Oven and Franman, 1998), general health (Goldberg and Hiller (1979) and life skills (Saatchi et al., 2010) was used and for data analysis, descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used. The results of this study showed that mental health, self-efficacy and life skills of students are in a satisfactory condition. The results showed that there is positive direct relationship between mental health and life skills and components of life skills and mental health and self-efficacy of students. The results show that the factor of skill related to interpersonal relations have predicted variable of life skills and this component has explained 0/030% of changes in the mental health of students.

Authors and Affiliations

Mahdi Naeim| MA in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran, Corresponding Email: Mahdi_Naeim@yahoo.com, Hamid Reza Rahimi| MA in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran, Fereshteh Soltani| MA in Clinical Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran, Fatemeh Farazandeh| MA in Educational Psychology, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran Azad University, Tehran, Iran, Fatemeh Maghsoodloo Nejad| MA in Clinical Psychology, Save Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran, Mahmood Reza Sharafi| MA in Clinical Psychology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran, Zahra Seifi Taghi Dizaj| MA in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran

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Mahdi Naeim, Hamid Reza Rahimi, Fereshteh Soltani, Fatemeh Farazandeh, Fatemeh Maghsoodloo Nejad, Mahmood Reza Sharafi, Zahra Seifi Taghi Dizaj (2016). The role of life skills and self-efficacy in mental health among male students in High school. International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences (IJMRHS), 5(7), 118-126. https://europub.co.uk./articles/-A-11783