The effect of group counseling on the assertiveness level of high school students (a experimental practice in commercial professional high school)

The effect of a nine-week program of assertiveness training performed withhigh school students on the assertiveness level of these students was studied.This study was included a sample of 40 indivuduals among the 1st classstudents of a Commercial Professional High School. Twenty students were assignedto the experimental group while 20 others to the control group. An experimentalmodel with pre-test end post-test control groups were used.During the nine week period, a program based on homeworks, role playingand cognitive remodeling technics was executed. The difference between the scoresof experimental and control groups were analyzed with percentage enumerations,Kovaryans (ANCOVA) and Independent Samples t-test.The difference between pre-tests and post-tests has diverged significantlybetween experimental and control groups. This shows that assertiveness training haspositive effects on the assertiveness levels of individuals and the literature showssimilar results (Rathus, 1973; Voltan, 1980a; Sorias, 1986; Çulha and Dereli, 1987;nceoğlu and Aytar, 1987; Tegin, 1990; Yeşilyaprak ve Kısaç, 1999; Torucu, 1994;Tataker, 2003 ). Suggestions were made according to this results. The usefulness ofthe assertiveness training for high school students is one of the suggestions.