JNUR_V2_N2_RP1 Flora Rahimaghaee Ali Khalkhali Massumeh Rahimzade Shahram Salavati Journal on Nursing 2231 – 4504 2 2 23 29 Life-Skills, Life-Skills Training, Third-Grade Middle School Students This study was carried out to determine the effects of life skills training program on third-grade middle school students in northeast Iran. In recent years life skills training program have become increasingly prominent in Iran educational area. Through this causal-comparative research, 310 thirteen to fourteen years old students (both sexes) have been chosen and divided into two groups of control and experimental. The instrument used for collecting the data was a questionnaire made by the researchers themselves, whose validity and reliability had been confirmed (a= 88.48%). Using t-tests and Chi tests, study results revealed that programmed used for life skills do not affect students’ life skills. However, there was a significant difference between the male and female students. In contrast to what had been expected, this study showed life skill program has not succeeded in improving levels of northeast Iranian secondary school students’ life skill. Therefore, more to material developers’ concern, more revision and reconsidering is needed in this field, since successful run of this program can lead to students’ development in every aspect of their lives, including educational, mental, and social development. May - July 2012 Copyright © 2012 i-manager publications. All rights reserved. i-manager Publications http://www.imanagerpublications.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=1969