Mahnaz Babaei - Department of Social and Political Sciences Golestan University
Mahmoud Reza Cheraghali - Department of Social and Political Sciences Golestan University

the present research was conducted to examine the influence of the training of the life skills bookon the increase of the self-confidence of the first grade high school girls in mazandaranprovince.It was an experimental method (with 2 groups of experimental and control)research.The participants were 600 students who were randomly selected from 6 cities andrandomly divided to experimental and control groups.The experimental participated in a lifeskills class once a week for 4 months. the researcher uesd Eyzing self-confidence questionnairefor testing the hypothesis. the result showed that teaching life skills book increasing theexperimental group self –confidence in 3 cities was significant while in other 3 cities it didn’tshow significant results.Because cultures and situation may effect training life skills book.it maybe possible that it shows different results

life skills,self-confidence,girls students, Mazendaran province