The Relationships Among Students Adjustment To College Assertiveness And Academic Self Efficacy For Undergraduate Second Year Students At Addis Ababa University

The relationships amollg studellts' adjustmellt to college, assertiveness alld academic Selfefficacy,rnfor ulUiergraduate secolld year studellts at Addis Ababa ul1iversityrnThe present study examined the relationship among students' adjustment to college, academicrnself efficacy and assertiveness among 283 (J 7.2% of 1642) randomly selected second yearrnstudents (Male, N= 219 and Female, N= 64) in the College of Educatian. An adapted StudentrnAdaptation to College Questionnaire (Baker & Siryk, 1989), the Rathus AssertivenessrnSchedule (Rathus, 1973) and the College Academic Self efficacy Scale (Owen and Froman,rn1988) were employed to tap the aforementioned beliefs. The study Jound statisticallyrnsignificant relationships among Studen.ts adjustment to college, assertiveness and academicrnself efficacy Jor Addis Ababa university second year undergraduate students in the College ojrnEducation. It also Jound out that academic self efficacy was a better predictor (accounts Jorrn52.9% oJthe variance) oJstudent' adjustment to college compared to assertiveness (accountsrnJor1 9.36% oj the variance) while together they explained 54.5% oj the variance in students 'rnadjustment to college. The implication oj these jindings to university education in particularrnand educational practices in general was discussed. Furthermore, directions Jor jitrtherrnresearch were presented.

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