Teaching how life skills (anger control) affect the happiness and self-esteem of Tonekabon female students

The purpose of the current research is investigating the effectiveness of teaching the life skills (Anger Control) on increasing happiness and self-esteem of the girl students of Shahed high school in Tonekabon. The statistical society of this research consists of 200 girl students at the Tonekabon Shahed high school out of which 80 individuals were given questionnaire randomly. Among those who had low scores of the effect of teaching life skills on the increase of happiness and self-esteem, some were selected as sample and divided randomly into two 15-individual groups as test and witness group. Tool of measurement is the year's Oxford happiness questionnaire and the year's Cooper-Smith test. In order to study the hypothesis of the research which is based on the effect of the teaching of the life skills (Anger Control) on the increase of the happiness and self-esteem of the students, the multi-variable covariance test has been used with the aid of SPSS software. The results showed that teaching the life skills (Anger Control) is effective on increasing the self-esteem. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Academic World Education and Research Center.