Strategy of Management of Certain Life Skills & Its Relationship to the Positive Thinking Among Adolescents

The research aims to study the relationship between life skills and positive thinking among adolescents by studying the three axes of life skills; confronting stress and emotions, self-awareness and decision-making, and studying positive thinking in its four dimensions; optimism and positive expectations, sense of satisfaction and tolerance, emotional intelligence, and assuming of responsibility. The research also aims to study the relationship between some study variables and each of adolescents’ life skills and positive thinking among adolescents, as well as to reveal the differences between male and female adolescents in both life skills and positive thinking. The sample of the study included 500 male and female adolescents in Shebin Al-Kom and neighboring villages. The sample was chosen randomly and objectively from different socio-economic levels. The study tools included a general data form for adolescents, a life skills questionnaire, and a positive thinking questionnaire.
The most important results of the study are that there is a positive correlation at the level of significance of 0.01 between adolescents’ life skills with its three axes and positive thinking with its four dimensions, there is a positive correlation between some study variables (adolescent age, number of family members, and educational stage) and the life skills of the adolescent, there is also a positive correlation between some study variables (adolescent age, educational stage, parental age, and mother’s education level) and the positive thinking of the adolescent, there is no relationship between some study variables (father’s education level and monthly income category) and each of the life skills and positive thinking of the adolescent, and there are no statistically significant differences between the average scores of female and male adolescents in life skills as a whole. The results also show that there is no statistically significant difference between the adolescents of the sample in life skills and positive thinking according to (parental education level, adolescent’s ranking within the family, and family marital status).
The most important recommendations of the study are as follows:
(Training adolescents to apply life skills strategies so that they can face the stress of life that they encounter, intensifying media programs that target youth especially adolescents, providing many programs that increase positive thinking and optimism in life, holding training and educational courses on various life skills that enable them to deal with life properly, and paying attention to developing positive thinking among children through constructive family dialogue and providing them with the necessary guidebooks, which helps them control their emotions, makes their thinking flexible and not rigid, improves their positive expectations about the future, and supports them in their private and public lives).