Abstract:
The present study investigated the relationship between demographic characteristics and marital life skills of the young Iranian clients using descriptive-survey method in 2017. The studied population was all young married people in Shiraz. The sample included 384 individuals who were selected by cluster sampling method. Data was measured by a researcher-made questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of descriptive statistics indicate that the participants benefit from desirable life skills. The inferential results showed that there was no significant difference between the life skills variables and gender, and marriage length and occupational status at the p value <strong><em> </em></strong>
Machine summary:
This organization developed life skills in terms of ten main areas: self-awareness, communication, interpersonal relationships, problem solving, creative thinking, dealing with emotions, dealing with stress, empathy, decision-making and critical thinking skills.
Therefore, there appears a wide range of views in explaining life skills that include the views of Maass, Wilken, Jordan, Culen Place (2006), Boleman (2004), Loeser, Bailey, Benson Deen (2004) and Sawi and Smith (1997).
Given that life skills consist of eight indicators (problem solving, creative thinking, empathy, self-awareness, stress coping, effective communication, interpersonal communication, and decision making.
The t-test results of respondents' life skills {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} Table 2 shows that the significance value for the indicators of problem solving, empathy, self-awareness, effective communication, interpersonal communication and decision making is less than 0.
05), and also upper limit is positive and lower limit is negative; thus there is not any significant difference between the mean scores of problem solving, creative thinking, empathy, self-Awareness, stress Coping, effective communication, and interpersonal communication.
In order to examine the role of variables of age, marriage length, occupational status, and education in responding to the questions of life skills indicators, which include problem solving, creative thinking, empathy, self- awareness, stress coping, effective communication, interpersonal communication, and decision making; analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used (Table 4).