The Effectiveness of Life Skills Training on Internet Addiction and Cyber Bully-ing in Adolescents in District 3 of Tehran

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of life skills training on dependence on internet and cyber bullying among adolescents in district 3 of Tehran. The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test and control group. The statistical population includes all male high school students of District 3 of Tehran who were studying in 1398 academic year who 30 individuals were selected by convenience sampling and divided into experimental and control groups.The experimental group received 12 sessions of 90-minute sessions of life skills training, but the control group did not receive any intervention. To collect data from Yang Internet Addiction Questionnaire (1998) and Patchin and Hindu Bullying (2011) were used. Data were analyzed using testrepeated variance analysis in SPSS software. Based on this study, it can be concluded that life skills training reduces internetaddiction and cyber bullying and can be recommended as a training method for the target population. It should be noted that this training had a one-month follow-up period that showed positive results in training these skills.