Relationship between assertiveness and social anxiety with happiness

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship betweenassertiveness and social anxiety with happiness in the second classof high school girls of Bojnourd. The main research method isdescriptive and correlational type. The population consists of girlsstudents of high school of Bojnourd (4540 persons) that 400persons of them selected by multi- stage random sampling andbased on Morgan`s table. The Assertiveness Inventory (Gambrills &Richey, 1975), Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Hills & Argyle,2002) and Social Phobia Inventory (Connor et al, 2000) were usedin order to gathering of data. Pearson correlation, multipleregressions with stepwise method and variance analysis ofunivariate was used to test the hypothesis. Results showed thatassertiveness and social anxiety is relate with happiness andpredicts it. Found that there is a significant positive relationshipbetween assertiveness and happiness at the level of less than 0.01.In addition, there is a negative and meaningful relationship betweensocial anxiety and its dimensions with happiness at the level of lessthan 0.01. There is a significant negative and meaningfulrelationship between assertiveness and dimensions and total scoreof social anxiety at the level of less than 0.01. In addition, there is asignificant difference between Assertiveness and happiness ofstudents of different academic disciplines. The absence of negativeemotions such as anxiety, embarrassment and low zinc, depression,anger, positive emotions and mood, activity, and more extensivesocial relations were related to the happiness.

Relationship between assertiveness and social anxiety with happiness Keywords:

Assertiveness , Social anxiety , Happiness