أثر برنامج تدربي جمعي في الإرتقاء بمستوى المهارات الحياتية الاجتماعية وتغيير مركز الضبط الخارجي إلى الداخلي، لدى طلبة جامعة الأمير سطام بن عبد العزيز
This study aimed to identify the level of social and life skills and modifying the external locus control to internal locus control among students of prince Sattam bin Abdul-Aziz University. Furthermore, the researcher prepares a training program for improving student’s social and life skills. The study sample consists of (40) students of second and third at education college, who they were randomly distributed equally into experimental and control groups; each group consists (20) students. The following instruments were used by researcher in data collection: social skills scale; and the training program for improving social and life skills and modifying the locus of control. According to the results of the study the researcher found that there is statistically significant differences at the level of (α≤ 0.05) between the average of the sample (experimental and controls) on the post-measurement of all social life skills, and differences were for the experimental group in all skills. In addition, there were statistically significant differences at the level of (α≤ 0.05) between the average of the sample (experimental and controls) on the post-measurement of locus of control and differences were for the experimental group who all have external locus of control. Moreover, The results of the study indicated that there were statistically significant differences at the level of (α≤ 0.05) between the average of the sample (experimental and controls) on the post-measurement for both social life skills and locus of control scale for the experimental group, which indicating to the effectiveness of training program and its role in improving social life skills and modifying the locus of control among the study sample. (Published Abstract)