رویکردهای نوین آموزشی (Feb 2016)
Effectiveness of Training Assertiveness Behavior on life Quality in School and Social Anxiety of Females' Students
Abstract
This article was administrated to study the effect of training of assertiveness on increasing life quality in school and decreasing of social anxiety of females' students. The statistical population consisted of all females' first grade students of Ahvaz high schools in academic year 2010-2011. In order to do so, 100 students were selected randomly who completed the research questionnaires and 30 students from them that had lowest score were chosen, were assigned randomly in two groups, and one of these groups were selected randomly as experimental group. The instruments used in this research were the Watson and Frend's social anxiety scale (1969) and Anderson and Broock's life quality in school questionnaire (2000). The design of the research was experimental with pre-test and post-test with control group. After carrying out the experimental interventions, that lasts 8 sessions, the degree of social anxiety and life quality were measured. The result of multivariate covariance analysis and also the mean of pre-test and post-test of experimental and control groups indicated the significant differences between these two groups in research variables. It Can be said that the training of assertiveness behavior lead to increasing of life quality in school (p
