Effects of Assertiveness Training Technique on Low Self-Concept among Secondary School Students in Awka Education Zone

Abstract

The study investigated the effects of assertiveness training technique on the low self-concept of secondary school students in Awka Education Zone. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study is quasi experimental research and the specific design adopted was non-randomized pre-test post-test control group. The population of the study was made up of 650 (six hundred and fifty) senior secondary 1 and 11 students. A sample of 100 (one hundred students were obtained for the study through purposive sampling technique. A validated instrument – adolescent personal data inventory, self-concept sub-scale was used for data collection. Mean scores were used to answer research questions, while the null hypotheses were tested at P<0.05 level of significance using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The findings of this study among others are that: assertiveness training technique is effective in enhancing self-concept among secondary school students, and no significant difference exists in the effectiveness of assertiveness training technique in enhancing male and female secondary school students’ self-concept. Consequent upon the findings, it was recommended that students’ guidance counsellors should use assertiveness training technique in enhancing secondary school students’ self-concept.