A comparative study of assertiveness among Hindu/Muslim college girls

Pages:88-90
Anil Atmaram Patil (Vivekanand Arts, S.D. Commerce and Science College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra)

Assertiveness is a behavioral skill taught by many personal development experts and behavior therapists as well as cognitive behavior therapists in area of psychology. The attempt of this paper is to trace down the assertiveness among Hindu and Muslim college girls. For this purpose the stratified randomize sample was taken into consideration for the study consisting of 100 college going girls belonging to the age group of 17 to 23 years, out of which 50 belongs to Hindu community and 50 belongs to Muslim community as per objective. Assertive Inventory was administered individually to each subject . Significance of mean difference was tested by applying ‘t’ test. Results indicated that Hindu and Muslim college girls did not make a significant difference on Assertiveness criteria.