Addis Ababa University
School of graduate studies
The relationships among students’ adjustment to college, assertiveness and academic self efficacy
By
Adanew Diro Daba
April, 2007
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Arts in Psychology
ABSTRACT
The relationships among students’ adjustment to college, assertiveness and academic Self-efficacy, for undergraduate second year students at Addis Ababa university main campus
The present study examined the relationship among students’ adjustment to college, academic self efficacy and assertiveness among 283 (17.2% of 1642) randomly selected second year students (Male, N= 219 and Female, N= 64) in the College of Education. An adapted Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (Baker & Siryk, 1989), the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (Rathus, 1973) and the College Academic Self efficacy Scale (Owen and Froman, 1988) were employed to tap the aforementioned beliefs. The study found statistically significant relationships among Students adjustment to college, assertiveness and academic self efficacy for Addis Ababa university second year undergraduate students in the College of Education. It also found out that academic self efficacy was a better predictor (accounts for 52.9% of the variance) of student’ adjustment to college compared to assertiveness (accounts for19.36% of the variance) while together they explained 54.5% of the variance in students’ adjustment to college. The implication of these findings to university education in particular and educational practices in general was discussed. Furthermore, directions for further research were presented. [Read more →]