TY  - JOUR
TI  - An Examination of University Students’ Level of Assertiveness According to Self Construal andFive-Factor Personality Traits
AB  - This study aimed to examine undergraduate students’ level of assertiveness with regard to gender, class level, self-construal, and five-factor personality traits. The participants consisted of 507 (194 male, 313 female) undergraduate students receivingeducation at a state university in Ankara. The study data were collected via Voltan-Acar Assertiveness Inventory, AdjectiveBased Personality Test, Relational-Individual-Collective Self Construal Scale, and Personal Information Form. The multipleregression analysis was used to identify the predictive power of five-factor personality traits and self-construals predictivepower on the participants’ level of assertiveness. Independent samples t-test was used to determine whether there was astatistically significant difference between university students’ level of assertiveness according to gender. One-way ANOVA was used to compare university students’ level of assertiveness in accordance with class level. SPSS 21.0 package was used forstatistical analysis. The current findings showed that the personality traits of extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, andopenness to experience, as well as individual and collective self-construals, predict undergraduate students’ level ofassertiveness at a statistically significant level. Also, undergraduate students’ level of assertiveness did not differ at astatistically significant level according to their gender and class level. The findings were discussed in the light of the relatedliterature, and some recommendations were made.
AU  - Tuzgöl Dost, Meliha
AU  - AKKAYA, Mücahit
DO  - 10.24106/kefdergi.718520
PY  - 2021
JO  - Kastamonu Eğitim Dergisi
VL  - 29
IS  - 2
SN  - 1300-8811
SP  - 480
EP  - 489
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/463103
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