Investigating the Relationship Between Hopelessness and Assertiveness Conditions of the University Students in Turkey

Korkmaz YİĞİTER

Abstract


The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between hopelessness and assertiveness conditions of the university students. A total of 214 student ages 19.59±1.39 from different department of the university participated in the study. Beck Depression Inventory and Rathus Assertiveness Schedule were used to determine the participants’ scores of depression and assertiveness respectively. T test was used to compare the data in terms of gender and also, Pearson correlation test was used to determine the correlations of the variables. Level of significance was set at 0.05. There was not a significant difference between assertiveness and hopelessness scores of male and female university students. In contrast with this result, there was a significant relationship between assertiveness and hopelessness levels of the students. Result of the study highlights the level of hopelessness is effective feature on the assertiveness level of the university students.

Keywords: Hopelessness, psychology, assertiveness, university students.

 


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