Communication Skills and Its Relationship with Quality of Life Among School Counselors

Abstract

The research aims to identify the relationship between communication skills and quality of life, and the ability to predict the quality of life depending on the communication skills that the counselors have. The sample consists of (118)  counselors in schools of public Education In Jeddah governorate, the researcher used the scale of the quality of life for adults prepared by Hicham Abdullah (2010AD), and the scale of communication skills of adults prepared by Abdel Rahim Mohsen (1993AD). The results have shown that there is a function relation at level of (0.01) between the communication skills and the quality of life, communication skills have predicted the quality of life for counselors, and explained about 36.3% of the quality of their life, the results also showed an existence of statistically significant differences among the counselors depending on their academic qualification. The research presented a set of recommendations: The need for qualifying the counselors through the communication skills raising courses, which contributes in promoting and developing new techniques that enable them to achieve a high level of the quality of life, and adding the quality of life concept to some of the university course in order to help the students to understand the quality of life standards before getting into the realm of work, and The Provision of specialized programs that develop the non-verbal communication skills for the counselors, and making more researches on the effectiveness of training programs in developing the communication skills especially the non-verbal communication skills for the counselors.

Keywords: communication skills, quality of life, counselors.