The nurses’ Assertiveness and Self-Esteem correlations and consequences; a cross sectional study
Abstract
Background: Non-assertive behavior and low self-esteem are significant issues in the nursing profession. Nurses with high levels of assertiveness and self-esteem are efficient to provide effective patient care.
Purpose: This study aimed to examine the relationship between assertive behavior and self-esteem among nurses.
Methods: A cross-sectional study using a quantitative approach was conducted using self-administered questionnaire manually distributed to a randomly selected sample of nurses working in various hospitals in Mosul City, Iraq., and asked them to fill two questionnaires; the first one to assess the self-esteem called The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and the second one to assess the assertiveness called The Rathus assertiveness schedule (RAS) for a time period reach 6 weeks, then data were collected and extracted into excel sheet to be analyzed using SPSS program.
Results: From total 408 nurses with an average age for nurses is 29±6 years and about 50.7% of nurses are males, the highest percentage (31.4%) of these nurses recruited from Al-Salam Teaching Hospital. It has been reported that 90.4% of nurses are associated with moderate level of assertiveness skills to show moderate assertiveness skills while 68.6% of nurses are associated with normal self-esteem, the results showed that there is high significant relationship (strong positive) between assertiveness skills and self-esteem among nurses indicated by high significant at p = 0.001 and there is significant association between assertiveness skills with regard to male nurses (p= 008) while there is no significant association is reported among assertiveness skills with other sociodemographic characteristics, also, there is significant association between self-esteem with regard to nurses living with their families (p= 017) while there is no significant association is reported among self-esteem with other sociodemographic characteristics.
Conclusion: There is a positive significant correlation between nurses' self-esteem and the level of assertiveness in some of Mosul hospitals in Iraq.
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