Assertiveness is an important skill for children to develop healthy human
relations with peers, parents, teachers, and all the other social contacts. When
children use assertiveness skills in their social, academic and personal life, they
enhance the potential of reaching successful outcomes. There are some positive
correlations between assertiveness and self esteem. Thus, investigating the effects
of an assertiveness training on the assertiveness and self esteem levels of 5th grade
children would contribute to a lot of aspects on the development of children.
This study aims to develop an assertiveness program for 5th grade
elementary school students and has the purpose of exploring the effects on
children&rsquo / s level of assertiveness and self esteem.
The participants of the study were from Ankara University Education
Development Foundation Primary School. Twenty four students participated in
the study. The experimental design was used in which 2 groups were compared on
pre test and post test measures by using Assertiveness Inventory and Coopersmith
Self Esteem Inventory. Moreover, observations of teachers were collected through
the record sheets. The experimental group was given an 8 week training.
In order to explore the effects of assertiveness training on assertiveness
levels of the children independent samples t test was used. The results revealed
that there were significant differences between the two groups based on
assertiveness scores. Inn order to explore the effects of assertiveness training on
self esteem levels of children, Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used.
However, there were no significant differences found on self esteem scores
between the two groups. On the other hand, according to the observations that
were collected from the teachers, it could be stated that the training contributed
positively to the children&rsquo / s self esteem.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1217686/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 January 2003 |
| Creators | Sert, Adile Gulsah |
| Contributors | Akkok, Fusun |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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