Effect of Assertive Training on Social Anxiety Among Senior Secondary School of Giwa Educational Zona Kaduna State.

Abstract

This study investigated the effect of assertive training on social anxiety among senior Secondary school students in Giwa Educational Zone Kaduna state, Nigeria Pre-test post-test quasi experimental treatment design was used. A sample of forty students was selected purposefully from three co-educational secondary schools out of a population of one hundred and forty-five (145) students with social anxiety disorder in five (5) secondary schools. The treatment group was exposed to assertive training for six weeks.  The instruments used (severity measure for social disorder (social phobia) - child age 11-17 years) and (adult), were validated by experts for data collection. Two objective were formulated to guide the study and two null hypotheses tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance using t-test. The findings revealed that there was significant effect of assertive training on anxiety among secondary school students. and that there was no significant differential effect of assertive training on account of the students' gender. It was recommended that assertive training should be adopted by school counsellors and psychologists to reduce the level of social anxiety disorder among secondary school students irrespective of their gender. Assertive training technique should be used for the treatment of both male and female students with social anxiety disorder.