Life stressors and their relationship to assertiveness for university students

Document Type : Empirical Articles

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working with individual and families, social work,helwan university

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the nature of the relationship between Life stressors and Assertiveness for University Students. It also aimed at Identify indicators for social workers roles with University Students. A purpose sample of (395) University Students (123 males, 31.2%, 272 females, 68.2%), the study found that There are a statistically significant inverse relationship between the Assertiveness and life stressors and its various dimensions(Family stress, Academic stress, Economic stress ,stress from colleagues or friends, Services-related stress) For University Students
Also study shows that there are statistically significant differences between the average degrees of males and females on the scale of Assertiveness at a level of (0.05), and indicated that there are no statistically significant differences between the average degrees of males and females on the scale of life stressors of University Students as a whole

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