Investigation of levels of assertiveness and its association with self-esteem among undergraduate students in dentistry

Abstract

It was investigated the level of assertiveness among students of the undergraduate course in Dentistry of FOP-Unicamp and verified its association with self-esteem and other socioeconomic variables. The mean age of the students was 21 years, of which 79.16% were female and 43.22% had low self-esteem. Regarding assertiveness, 82.30% presented adequate characteristics, any of the participant students had low assertiveness levels, and 17.70% had levels associated with aggressive characteristics, and there were no significant association between assertiveness and self-esteem.