Effect of Life Skill Training On Empathy of The Iranian High School Students

Abstract

Present study was aimed at studying the effect of life skill training in high school female students in Tehran, Iran. For this purpose initially five high schools were selected randomly. Then from each school 30 students were selected whom the authorities of schools felt had some problems.  Finally, 60 students were selected 12 from each school that had problems in empathy. Therefore, total sample of the present study comprised sixty (60) female students. Then, they were assigned randomly to experimental and control groups. Each group had 30 subjects the experimental group was given Life skill training for 10 days, while the control group wasn't given such training. Empathy of the Experimental and control group was measured before and after Life skill training. Empathy was measured with the help of the Davis empathy inventory (1980). This inventory includes the dimensions of fantasy, perspective taking, empathic concern, and personal distress. Analysis of Co-variance (ANCOVA) was used to analyze the data. Results showed that on all the dimensions of empathy experimental group had scored better on post condition than control group. Thus, life skill training was highly effective in improving empathy of subjects. Effect size of life skill training on all the dimensions of empathy was found to be large.