INTRODUCTION:

Adolescent period of transition starts off evolved on the age of 10 years and ceases by means of the age of nineteen years. Adolescence is a Latin word and that means is “to grow up". It is a transitional stage of bodily and sexual maturation, developmental reports encompass movement toward social and economic independence, and improvement of identification, the purchase of abilities needed to perform person relationships and roles usually taking place between puberty and criminal adulthood (age of majority) however largely characterized as beginning and finishing with the teenage level.

Adolescents go through many changes but one characteristics feature seen in the adolescents is self-hatred. This is a strange emotion, it is outrageously common in teenagers and it can be extremely hard to get out of the rut it creates. Low-self-esteem is also associated with feelings of being weak, helpless, hopeless, frightened, fragile, in-complete, worthless and inadequate. They suffer from negative thoughts and fail to recognize their potential, they fear criticism and take compliments negatively and are afraid to take up responsibilities, and afraid of forming their own opinion.

Assertiveness is a form of behavior characterized by a confident declaration or affirmation of a statement without need of proof; this affirms the person's rights or point of view without either aggressively threatening the rights of another assuming a position of dominance or submissively permitting another to ignore or deny one's rights or point of view.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:

A study to assess the correlation between the assertive behavior and self esteem among adolescent girls at Sri Narayani Collage of Nursing, Vellore, Tamil Nadu.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

· To assess the levels of assertive behavior among adolescent girls.

· To assess the levels of self-esteem among adolescent girls.

· To correlate between the levels of assertive behavior and self-esteem among adolescent girls.

· To find out the association between the assertive behavior and self-esteem among adolescent girls with selected socio demographic variable.

HYPOTHESES:

H₁: There is a significant correlation between levels of assertive behavior and self-esteem among adolescent girls.

H₂: There is a significant association between the levels of assertive behavior with selected socio demographic variables.

H₃: There is a significant association between the levels of self esteem with selected socio demographic variables.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:

The descriptive correlation survey research design was carried out at Sri Narayani College of Nursing, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. The population for the study consists of 50 adolescent girls belongs to the age group of 17 to 19 years. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the samples. After obtaining formal administrative approval and institutional ethical clearance from the concerning authorities and informed consent from the samples parents the investigator personally collected the data for a period of two weeks. The Rathus assertiveness schedule was used to assess the levels of assertive behavior and Rosenberg self esteem scale is used to assess the levels of self esteem among adolescent girls. The tool designed for this study had two sections.

Section A:

It deals with demographic variables like age, religion, education of father, education of mother, occupation of father, occupation of mother, family monthly income, and type of family.

Section-B:

Standardized tool to assess the assertive behavior and self-esteem.

i) Rathus assertiveness schedule

ii) Rosenberg self esteem scale.

i. Rathus assertiveness schedule:

It is used to assess the levels of assertive behaviour and also measured in terms of scores. It carries 30 questions each correct response will be given a score of +3 always, +2 usally, +1 some times and a wrong response score of -3 never, -2 rarely and -1 once in a great while. The maximum score is -90 to +90 to interpret the levels of assertiveness. Table. 1 shows the scores and levels of assertive behaviour.

Table .1 levels of assertiveness

Characteristics	Level of self esteem
0-14	Low self esteem
15-25	Average
26-30	High self esteem

Table .2 levels of self esteem

Characteristics	Level of assertive behavior
-90 to -20	Very non assertive
-21 to 0	Situationally non assertive
+1 to +20	Somewhat assertive
+21 to +40	Assertive
+40 to +90	Probably aggressive

ii. Rosenberg self-esteem scale:

Rosenberg self-esteem Scale (10 objects) becomes used to assess the self esteem of adolescent girls. There will be five objects for positive self esteem and 5 objects for poor self esteem. They will be scored for positive self esteem as 03 for strongly agree, 02 for agree, 01 for disagree and 0 for strongly disagree. Reverse scoring is done for the negative self-esteem. Each correct response is given a score of one and a wrong response score of zero. The maximum score is 25-30 to interpret the levels of self esteem.

The level of self esteem is measured in terms of scores. The total score of self-esteem ranged from 0-30 for 10 items. Table.2 shows the Levels of self-esteem were classified as high self-esteem (25-30), average self-esteem (15-25), low self-esteem (0-14).

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION:

The present study was aimed to assess the correlation between the assertive behaviour and self-esteem among adolescent girls.

In this study the Chi square test is used to determine the association between the demographic variables with assertive behaviour and self esteem of the adolescent girls. Significant associations were found between the assertive scores with the religion, occupation status of father and type of family (x2 =14.3, 18.3 and 16.8). Significant associations were found between the levels of self esteem scores with the age, family monthly income, education and occupation status of father (x2 =14.1, 13.4 16.1, and 14.9). The adolescent girls occupation status of father was the only variable significantly associated between the assertive behavior and levels of self-esteem scores.

CONCLUSION:

Being more assertive can lead to a more rewarding life. It can improve upon existing aspects of their life (such as better relationships with friends and family) and completely change or introduce other aspects (such as personal or career opportunities.)

While the focus of this take a look at is on improving self-esteem and assertiveness through effective thinking, having a more advantageous attitude could make them open to a global of bodily adjustments. In addition to converting their way of questioning, they can also exchange their behavior and skills by getting to know new abilities.

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Received on 24.08.2019 Modified on 10.10.2019

Int. J. of Advances in Nur. Management. 2020; 8(2):123-126.

DOI: 10.5958/2454-2652.2020.00029.3