Assertiveness

It is estimated that around 20 per cent of the world's adolescents have a mental health or behavioral problem. The prevalence of mental disorders among adolescents has increased in the past 20–30 years; the increase is attributed to disrupted family structures, and families' unrealistic educational and vocational aspirations for their children. Assertive communication is the skill to speak and communicate in a manner that respects and look upon the rights and opinions of others while also standing up for your own rights, needs and personal boundaries. The purpose of the researchers was to find the relationship between mental health and level of assertiveness among adolescents. 80 college going students were randomly selected as the sample for research from Amity University Lucknow. Rathus assertiveness scale and Mental Health Inventory by Srivastava A. were used for assessing assertiveness and mental health among adolescents. Analysis was done using t-test to find gender differences among adolescents and Pearson r was used for assessing relation between both the variables. The result showed no significant gender difference among adolescents on assertiveness and mental health, but both the genders were found to be low assertive. Insignificant correlation was found on both the variables among adolescents. WHO (2001) has recently proposed that mental health is a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. Three ideas central to the improvement of health follow from this definition: mental health is an integral part of health, mental health is more than the absence of illness, and mental health is intimately connected with physical health and behavior. Mental health concerns everyone. It affects our ability to cope with and manage change, life events and transitions all human beings have mental health needs, no matter what the state of their psyche. Jahoda (1958) identified certain characteristics of mental health:

Quais as situações interpessoais mais frequentes no cotidiano dos universitários?
Quais são consideradas por eles como mais difíceis ou mais fáceis de lidar?
Quais habilidades sociais os universitários devem apresentar para lidar de forma competente com essas situações?
Com base em pesquisas e conhecimentos do campo teórico-prático das Habilidades Sociais, a presente cartilha busca responder essas questões de forma didática e ilustrada, apresentando alternativas viáveis e efetivas para os estudantes bem como exercícios e informações adicionais aos que pretendem aprimorar a própria competência social.
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RESUMO. Este estudo tem o objetivo de identificar e caracterizar a produção acadêmica de publicações nacionais acerca da assertividade. Fez-se uma busca sistemática em três tipos de fontes: Banco de dados de teses e dissertações da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Periódicos indexados nas bases de dados Lilacs, Scielo, Index-Psi/Periódicos e Google acadêmico, bem como de livros produzidos por autores que compõem grupos de pesquisa nas áreas analítico-comportamental e cognitivo-comportamental. Foram identificadas 64 publicações entre os anos de 1978 e 2014. As categorias de estudos identificadas na análise foram: 1- Teóricos, 2- Aplicados, 3- Caracterização e/ou correlações, 4- Intervenções, 5- Construção, adaptação e validação de instrumentos e 6- Outros. Os resultados indicaram um predomínio de estudos da categoria 2 (Aplicados), seguido da 3 (Caracterização e/ou correlações). A análise contribuiu para identificar perspectivas de investigações e lacunas quanto a tipos de estudos e focos das pesquisas em assertividade. Palavras-Chave: assertividade; estudo nacionais; revisão de literatura.

ABSTRACT. This  study  aims  at  identifying  and  characterizing  the  academic  production  of  national  studies  on  assertiveness. A systematic review was conducted based on three kinds of sources: (a) thesis and dissertations
database from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES); (b) indexed
journals on the Lilacs, Scielo, IndexPsi/Journals databases and Google Scholar; (c) books produced by authors who compose research groups in the behavior analysis and cognitive behavior areas. 64 studies pub-
lished between 1978 and 2014 were recovered. The study categories identified in the analysis were named
as: 1 – Theoretical, 2 – Applied, 3 – Characterization and/or correlations, 4 – Interventions, 5 – Construc-
tion, adaptation and validation of evaluation tools and 6 – Others. The results pointed to a predominance
of the category 2 (Applied studies), followed by the 3 (Characterization and/or correlations). The analysis
contributed for identifying a research agenda and gaps regarding types of studies and research focuses on
assertiveness. Keywords: assertiveness; national studies; literature review.