2019 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 317-329
Because first-year university students are confronted with 2 problems, adjustment to university life and establishment of their identity, it is important to give them support during their first year. The purpose of the present study of first-year university students was to measure effects of assertion training on their assertion behavior, respect for others, perspective taking, expression of anger, subjective adjustment, identity, and self-acceptance. The participants, all in their first year at university, were divided into 2 groups: 28 in the intervention group, and 33 in the control group. The students completed questionnaires just before, just after, 2 months after, and 6 month after the intervention group received assertion training. Analysis of the data indicated that assertion training had an effect on the students' assertion behavior, anger expression, subjective adjustment, identity, and self-acceptance. The results were discussed from the viewpoint of the concept of assertion training and features of university students' personal relationships.
