survey effective of- assertiveness and aggression in the academic achivement urmia girl high school students

a survey on effects of assertiveness and aggression in the academic achivement of urmia female high school students     r yavarian [1] , msc f sohrabi [2] , bsc n yavarian [3] , bsc    received: 12 april, 2010 accepted: 3 may, 2010   abstract   background & aims : academic achievement plays an important role in other aspects of life including personality, intelligence, social status . the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of assertiveness and aggressiveness of female high school students of urmia in their academic achievement.   materials & methods: in this study at first we selected 4 high schools randomly- then 262 students completed aggressiveness and assertiveness questionnaires. finally we calculated their mean average of two-semesters.   results : the results of t-test reveal that there is no significant difference between levels of aggression and assertiveness of different high school students, but there is a significant difference among academic achievement of students in high school students .   conclusion: according to the results it is necessary to investigate the role of intelligence and social status in academic achievement.   keywords : academic a chievement, aggression, assertiveness   address: psychiatric hospital, salmas road, urmia, iran tel: (+98)9143457816     email:  1 instructor of urmia university of medical sciences, urmia, iran (corresponding author) 2 psychologist of exceptional education, urmia, iran 3 bsc, imam khomeini hospital, urmia, iran