Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the Assertive Behavior of student nurses as perceived by themselves. The samples were the first, the second, and the third year student nurses of 1982 academic year from four provincial nursing colleges, Division of Nursing College, the Ministry of Public Health, and from three nursing colleges, the Ministry of Defence. The samples were drawn by simple and systematic random sampling. The samples were 411 student nurses. The questionnaire used in this research was The College Self-Expression Scale developed by John P. Galassi and others and it was translated into Thai by Wongpak Pupansri. The content validity was done and its reliability was 0.88. Then, its reliability was re-tested by the researcher, it was 0.778. Arithematic mean, percentage, two way analysis of varience, and Newman Keuls-test were used to analyse collected data. The results of the research were as follow: 1. There was no statistically significant difference between Assertive Behavior as perceived by the first, the second and the third year student nurses of the nursing colleges, the Ministry of defence, and the provincial nursing colleges, Division of Nursing colleges, the Ministry of Public Health at the 0.5 level, and Assertive Behavior of student nurses of both Ministries were at high level. 2. Assertive Behavior as perceived by student nurses of nursing colleges, The Ministry of Defence and by student nurse in the provincial nursing colleges, Division nursing colleges, The Ministry of Public Health were not statistically significant as the following: 2.1 Assertive Behavior as perceived by the first year student nurses of both Ministries were not statistically significant at the 0.5 level, but Assertive Behavior of the first year student nurses of the Ministry of Public Health was at the low level, while the first year student nurse of the Ministry of Defence was at the high level. 2.2 Assertive Behavior as perceived by the second year student nurses of both Ministries were not statistically significant at the 0.5 level and both were at the high level. 2.3 Assertive Behavior as perceived by the third year student nurses of both Ministries were not statistically significant at the .05 level and both were at the high level. 3. There was statistically significant difference between Assertive Behavior as perceived by the first and the third year student nurses of both Ministries at 0.5 level, and both were at the high level. However Assertive behavior as perceived by the third year was at the higher level comparing with the first year.