The Effectiveness of Teaching Life Skills (Critical Thinking) on Self-Control and Attitudes toward Drug Abuse among High-School Students

Document Type : Scientific- research

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

2 Ph. D student in Educational Psychology, Department of Education, Faculty of Education & Psychology, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

This study seeks to investigate the effectiveness of teaching life skills (critical thinking) on self-control/ self-mastery and attitudes toward drug abuse among high-school students. The research applies a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design method involving a control group. The statistical population included female high-school students in District 4 of Tabriz city in the academic year 2019-2020, among which 30 students were selected by the purposive sampling approach. The subjects were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups (n=15). The experimental group was trained for life skills (critical thinking) during ten sessions, while the control group did not receive any training in this regard. The Addiction Preparation Scale (Wade & Butcher, 1992) and Tangney's Self-Control Scale (SCS, Tangney et al., 2004) were used to collect data. Data analysis was carried out through the analysis of covariance. The results reveal that teaching life skills (critical thinking) can exert an impact on students’ self-control and attitudes toward drug abuse. In fact, life skills training enhances self-control and reduces students’ positive attitudes toward drug abuse. Therefore, learning life skills plays an important role in students’ self-control and attitudes toward drug abuse.

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Thinking and Children
Volume 11, Issue 1 - Serial Number 21
September 2020
Pages 27-46

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