Evaluate the efficiency of life skills training, utilizing the probe technique, to enhance social tolerance, wisdom, and emotion regulation among adolescent male students attending junior high school

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of life skills training by investigating the effectiveness of probe technique on social tolerance, wisdom, and emotion control among junior male high school students.

The present quasi-experimental study was conducted on all first-year high school male students (n=5,000) in Hamedan, Iran. The samples (n=50) were selected using a multi-stage cluster sampling method and divided into two groups (n=25 each). The intervention group received training on the manner of the probe method on social tolerance, wisdom, and emotion control. The required data were collected using the social tolerance, wisdom, and emotion control questionnaires. The gathered data were analyzed using MANCOVA multivariate analysis of covariance and Scheffe post hoc test.

According to the data obtained from the Scheffe test, the mean post-test scores of anger control, positive emotion control, depressed mood control, and adolescent anxiety control were respectively 11.32, 32.08, 6.4, 5.56, 4.68, and 7.84 higher in the intervention group than in the control group.

Teaching life skills through an intervention of the manner probe method had an effect on social tolerance, wisdom, and emotion control among male adolescents and was significantly different from traditional methods.