Effect of life-skills Training on Social Anxiety Symptoms and Stress Coping Methods in Teens in Families Support with Welfare Organization

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of life-skills training on social anxiety symptoms and stress coping methods in teens with social anxiety that are supported by welfare department. The research method was semi-empirical with two group''s pretest-posttest design. The subjects of this study were socially anxious teens in families supported by welfare organization in Darreh shahr town. So، after first administration of Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN)، 30 persons with highest scores were selected and randomly assigned in to an experimental group (15 persons) and a control group (15 persons). The experimental group received “life-skills” training through thirteen two hour sessions twice a week. During this period no intervention was given to the control group. The instrument for this study، social phobia inventory Conver and etal (2000) (SPIN) and parker & ender questionnaire of coping with stress (1991) were administered at the pretest and post-test stage to all participations. The result of multiple covariance analysis indicated that “life-skills” training significantly decreased the amount of social anxiety، emotion-based coping and evasion-based coping and so significant increase in the scores of problem-based coping in the experimental group as compared the control group (p=0. 0001). The result of the study revealed that “life-skills” training could be used as a useful intervention for teens in families that are supported by welfare organization.