The relationship between life skills and self-confidence among primary students in Robat Karim city, Iran

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study the relationship between life skills and self-confidence among primary students of Robat Karim. To this end, 392 students in 4th , 5th and 6th grade of elementary school in this region were randomly chosen to  respond to the standard questionnaires of self-confidence (Eysenck, 1977) and social skills (Saatchi et al., 2010) and finally, results of these questionnaires were analyzed by bivariate regression and test results showed that there is  a significant correlation in self-awareness, effective communication, interpersonal relationships, coping with stress, emotion management, problem solving, decision making and critical thought with confidence of elementary students in Robat Karim (P <0.01). However, no significant correlation  was observed between empathy and critical thinking of students confidence (P <0.05).