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| Article Name : | | | A Study On Assertiveness Among Adolescents | | Author Name : | | | A. Sajitha Qadir And V. Raji Sugumar | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-2919 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | The present study was conducted with an aim to study the assertiveness level of adolescents with reference to their gender and locality. The samples were taken from schools in Chennai city for urban sample and schools in Cumbum, Madurai District, and Tamil Nadu for rural samples. A random sample of 100 adolescents was chosen for the study. They were divided as 50 boys and 50 girls. The 50 boys were further divided as 25 from urban area and 25 from rural area. The same division was followed for the 50 girls also. The Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (1967) was used to study the assertiveness of the selected adolescents. The data was subjected to statistical analysis and the following results were revealed. The result of the study showed no significant difference in assertiveness level between the adolescents based on gender. But when assertiveness was studied based on locality it was found that the urban adolescents had better assertiveness scores than the rural adolescents both among boys and girls. | | Keywords : | | |
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