Separation-Individuation and Assertiveness in Late Adolescents

An adolescent can experience some problems regarding assertiveness during the course of separation-individuation from their caregivers. The purpose of this study is to describe the relationship between separation-individuation and assertiveness, which was examined in terms of how assertiveness predicts the separation-individuation of Turkish late adolescents. The sampling group consisted of 283 university students. The data gathered were analyzed by involving several simple regression analysis method. The findings revealed that aassertiveness predicts separation anxiety in a meaningful way. Furthermore, the assertiveness predicts engulfment anxiety, peer enmeshment, need denial, practicingmirroring, rejection expectancy, and healthy separation. These findings suggest that psychoeducational studies improving assertiveness can be carried out for the late adolescents who experience separation-individuation problems.