EFFECT OF ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING ON PERFORMANCE SELF-ESTEEM AND SEX ROLE IN STUDENT NURSES (NURSES).
Contributors: California School Of Professional Psychology - Berkeley/Alameda.
Published: 1989
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Psychology, Clinical.
Description: The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of assertiveness training on performance self-esteem and sex role in student nurses. Several hypotheses were postulated: assertiveness training would significantly increase from pretest to posttest and be maintained at a three week follow-up; a positive correlation would exist between androgyny and both performance self-esteem and assertiveness; and a positive correlation would occur between performance self-esteem and assertiveness.

Twenty-one first year nursing students from a private, Catholic university were assigned to either a six week assertiveness training procedure or to a wait-list control depending on the constraints of their academic schedules. The College Self-Expression Scale, the Performance Self-Esteem Scale, and the Bem Sex Role Inventory were administered to all subjects at pretest, posttest and follow-up. The experimental group completed a behavioral role play test of assertiveness at posttest and follow-up.

Results of a two-way repeated measures ANOVA found a significant increase in assertiveness from pretest to posttest which was maintained on follow-up. A positive correlation was determine to occur between assertiveness and performance self-esteem. However, androgyny was not found to positively correlate with either assertiveness or performance self-esteem. A post-hoc analysis of the data showed masculinity to positively correlate with both assertiveness and performance self-esteem.

Findings from this study support the effectiveness of an assertiveness training package designed for the specific subject population of student nurses. Likewise, results of this study point toward the utilization of a specific inventory of performance self-esteem to investigate the self-evaluations by subjects of their nonacademic achievement related behaviors. Suggestions for future research include a deemphasis on the empirical measurement of sex role and more attention toward a theoretical grounding of the constructs androgyny, masculinity, and femininity.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-09, Section: B, page: 4210.

Thesis (PH.D.)--CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY - BERKELEY/ALAMEDA, 1989.

School code: 0039.