The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of assertiveness training on symptoms of depression, distress tolerance, and self-dissociation in adolescent victims of bullying. The research method was a quasi-experimental design with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group. The statistical population was adolescent male victims of bullying referring to Shiraz psychology centers in 2024. 50 of them were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned to two control and experimental groups. The research tools included Harter's Bullying Victimization Questionnaire (1985, HBVS), Beck's Depression Inventory (1996, BDI-II), Simmons and Gaher's Distress Tolerance Inventory (2005, DTS), and Samani and Sadeghzadeh's Self-Dissociation Inventory (2007, SDS). The data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance. The findings showed that, after controlling for the pretest effect, there was a significant difference between the mean posttest scores of depressive symptoms, distress tolerance, and self-dissociation in the experimental and control groups at the (p≤0.003) level. Therefore, assertiveness training can help adolescent victims of bullying improve their depression, distress tolerance, and self-dissociation, leading to increased mental health.
Type of Article:
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General Psychology Received: 2025/05/3 | Accepted: 2025/12/21 | ePublished: 2026/03/29