investigating the capability of secondary school students in using life skills, in Guilan province.

The present research was done in order to study the degree of capability of secondary school students to use life skills in Guilan province. The subjects comprised 639 boys and girls students, who were selected randomly. The research brings up six questions and eight theories, so that to study variables such as degree of ability of life skills, gender, economic situations, father's education, study field, average, age, and areas of education. In order lo analysis the data, rhis research is used in several ways such as one way analysis of variance (ANO VA) testing and LSD test if there is meaningful differences, T test, Pearson correlation coefficient and chi square. in addition to descriptive statistic. The results showed that students have used about 59 percent of life skills in their life. It was showed that there is a meaning/iii difference between degrees of students' awareness component of life skills. There was also no meaningful difference between girls and boys in awareness of life skills, but between them in using of life skills the difference was meaningful, although boys are using these skills more than girls.