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Gender And Locality As Factors Influencing Assertive Behaviour Among Adolescents
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However, it is a well known fact that the environment where we live has
a great influence on our behavior. Environment which often are being
referred to as locality, culture denote one meaning. In this study apart
from gender, it is argued that locality will also create difference in
human behavior. Evolution has prepared us to live creatively in a
changing world and to adapt to environments from equatorial jungles to
arctic field. The diversity of our language, customs, and expressive
behavior suggest that much of our behaviors are socially programmed not
wired. The understanding of behavior rooted in our cultural or locality
context is more important in order to avoid the erroneous
generalizations based on the assumption of western foreign cultures.
Global traits do not exist and the greater the cultural variation the
smaller the situational comparability. The assertive behavior should be
evaluated within a given locality or cultural context. Cultural and
social norms for behaviour are key variables in the definition, training
and evaluation of the effectiveness and consequences of interpersonal
behaviour. Reorganizing the important of locality or cultural context in
assertion; the goal of assertion training is to have an understanding
of assertive in various cultural or locality context, to recognize that
discriminate those different situations, and to build an increased
repertoire for responding effectively in each of these contexts (Wood
& Mallinckrodt, 1990). Locality here refers to as district or area
where people live; however, it encompasses the eternal surroundings
within which an organism lives, or any external factors that affect the
organism’s development or behaviour (Colman, 2003).
Assertive behaviour means standing up for your rights and expressing
your truths without shrinking from what you want to communicate.
Assertiveness also includes recognizing and expecting the equality,
rights and truth of other people (changingmind.org, 2008). Behavior
which enables a person to act in his / her own best interest to stand up
for herself, without undue anxiety, to express interest, feeling,
comfortable; Or exercise personal rights without changing the right of
others, we call Assertive behavior (Alberti & Emmons, 1970, 1974).
Hence, the aim of this study is to investigate and determine which of
these two factor gender or locality actually portrays assertiveness.
Since, we all are made of different biological, social, religious and
cultural characteristics. It is imperative to know that being assertive
or unassertive which many studies have shown to cause different healthy
and unhealthy behavior can be as result of the individual gender or the
locality or culture where he or she is coming from.
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The
purpose of this study is to determine whether gender will determine
assertive behaviour among adolescents and also to examine whether
locality will determine assertive behaviour among adolescents.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS
This study will provide answers to the following problems.
Will gender significant determine assertive behaviour among adolescents?
Will locality significantly determine assertive behaviour among adolescents?
OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS
Gender: This refers to the cultural and social characteristics that distinguish woman from men in the society.
Locality:
This refers to the external surrounding within which an organism
(human) lives, or external factor that affect the organism development
of behavior. This can also be defined into urban and rural locality.
Urban locality: These are people who have resided in the city from birth or 6years after birth.
Rural Locality: These are people who are born and brought up in the rural area of village.
Adolescents: These are group of individual who are between the ages of 13-19 years, referred to as the teen years.
Assertive behaviour: This is expressing personal right and feelings in such a way that the rights of others are not violated.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study investigated gender and locality as factors influencing assertive behaviour among adolescents. 92 participants comprising of 48 males and 46 females between the ages of 16-19years with a mean age of 17.42 and standard deviation of 17.42 were sampled. Rathus Assertive Schedule (RAS) was used for data collection. 2 x 2 factorial design was adopted and 2 x 2 F-test was employed to analyze the data. The findings revealed that gender and locality do not significantly determine assertive be ... Continue reading---
