Effect of Solution-Oriented Psychological Group Counseling upon Assertiveness Skills of University Students

This is study analyze the effect of solution-oriented psychological group counseling upon assertiveness skills of university students. The study group created included 30 (16 females, 14 males) volunteer students studying among 213 students at Erzincan University Faculty of Education in 20142015 academic year. This research was an experimental study in which random model with pre-test and post-test group based upon real experimental model was used. In this study, Voltan Acar SelfDetermination Scale and Personal Information Form were used as data collection tools. For the analysis of obtained data, Independent Samples t-Test and One-Factor ANCOVA were used. As result of performed data analyses, it was determined that assertiveness scores of students in the experimental group were significantly increased rather than the pre-experiment scores and control group. Moreover, the variable of gender that is possible to influence the effect of experimental process was kept under control with covariance (ANCOVA) analysis