The Impact of Assertiveness Training and Family Economic Conditions on the Subscale Depression of Mental Health: A Study Among Students of Boosher'S High Schools in Iran.

In the present study, an attempt was made to find out the Impact of Assertiveness training on mental health among students of Boosher's High Schools in Iran. The hypotheses of the present study were, 1. Assertiveness Training is effective on the subscale Depression of mental health among the experimental group. 2. Assertiveness Training is increase post test among the experimental group on the subscale Depression of mental health.3. Family Economic Condition is not effective on the subscale Depression of mental health among the experimental group.

Participants consisted of students of high schools. The sample selected for the present study consists of 200 male students (N=200) of first grade of high schools of Boosher city in Iran. The subject will be selected randomly and divided in to two groups, experimental (N=100) and control (N=100) groups. The experimental group alone undergoes the intervention programme i.e., Assertiveness training.

General Information Schedule prepared by the investigator was used to gather personal information regarding each subject. General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) of Goldberg (1979) was used to measure mental health of the students.

Repeated Measure t-TEST and ANOVA were employed to find out the effectiveness of Assertiveness and Family Economic Condition on the subscale Depression of mental health. Results revealed that Assertiveness was highly on the subscale Depression of mental health among the experimental group and Family Economic Condition is not effective on the subscale Depression of mental health.