OBJECTIVES to analyze the effect of self-esteem, assertiveness, self-efficacy and resiliency on alcohol and tobacco consumption in adolescents. METHOD a descriptive and correlational study was undertaken with 575 adolescents in 2010. The Self-Esteem Scale, the Situational Confidence Scale, the Assertiveness Questionnaire and the Resiliency Scale were used. RESULTS the adjustment of the logi...

Assertiveness training is a form of behaviour therapy designed to help people stand for themselves-to empower themselves, in more contemporary terms. response that seeks maintain an appropriate balance between passivity and aggression. Assertive responses promote fairness equality human interactions, based on positive sense respect self others. can be effective treatment certain conditions, suc...

Tested predictions that assertiveness and social support would be significantly predictive of psychological adjustment. Furthermore, it was anticipated that assertiveness and certain types of social relationships would differentially interact to predict adjustment, since positive and negative effects of both variables have been noted in prior research. Trained raters interviewed 156 persons rec...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to develop assertiveness training applying Dongsasub training for junior nursing students, and to verify effectiveness of the training on assertiveness behavior, self-esteem, clinical practice stress, and clinical competence. METHODS The study design was a non-equivalent control group non-synchronized design. Participants were 63 nursing students in clinical t...

BACKGROUND Nursing students are susceptible to a higher risk of depression. Recognition of depression, assertiveness and the relationship between them is important since if a relationship exists, probably enhancing the level of assertiveness can reduce depression in this high risk group. We aimed to investigate depression and assertiveness levels and the relationship between them in nursing stu...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between personality dimensions (introversionextroversion) and Self-assertiveness with Social Anxiety among university students. The Sample consisted of 360 individuals (180 girls, 180 boys), selected by Moregan table. The tools of the research consisted of three questionnaires: Eysenck personality questionnaire, Self-assertiveness questionna...

Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is a prevalent women's sexual pain disorder, which is associated with sexual function difficulties. Attachment theory has been used to understand adult sexual outcomes, providing a useful framework for examining sexual adaptation in couples confronted with PVD. Research to date indicates that anxious and avoidant attachment dimensions correlate with worse sexual ou...

background: nursing students are susceptible to a higher risk of depression. recognition of depression, assertiveness and the relationship between them is important since if a relationship exists, probably enhancing the level of assertiveness can reduce depression in this high risk group. we aimed to investigate depression and assertiveness levels and the relationship between them in nursing st...