DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i03.040

Pages: 769-776

This study aimed to evaluate the extent to which a one-day life skills development programme of the Right to Play Thailand Foundation improved the life skills of its participants. The specific objectives of this study were to determine the relationship between participants’ gender and life skills development, to examine the relationship between participants’ age and life skills development and to find out the relationship between the groups that participants’ were involved in and life skills development. Using a questionnaire (adopted from the Life effectiveness questionnaire (LEQ) – H version) improvement of life skills such as appreciation in one’s own and others’ values, analysing, making decisions and solving problems creatively, emotion and stress management, building good relationships with others and setting goals for life were statistically analysed. Responses from 95 out of 110 participants in the Wat Tumru Mittaphap Thi 65 School, Samutprakhan, Thailand were analysed to test the research hypothesis. According to the results of the study the one day life skills development programme developed three life skills such as building relationships, setting goals and problem solving in a minor way even though there was no relationship between the participants’ gender, age and group and life skills development.