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An Attempt to Establish the Experimental Construct Validity of Cognitive and Behavioral Approaches to Assertiveness Training.
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Cianni, Mary; Horan, John J. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1990
Evaluated cognitive, behavioral, and combined assertiveness treatments for dysfunctional job-interviewing skills. Cognitive treatment had no impact on any outcome variable. Some evidence favoring behavioral treatment appeared on cognitive assessment battery but not on behavioral battery, suggesting that cognitive improvements were not clearly…
Descriptors: Adults, Assertiveness, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring
Longitudinal Study of Assertion Training as a Drug Abuse Prevention Strategy.
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Horan, John J.; Williams, John M. – American Educational Research Journal, 1982
Nonassertive junior high school students were assigned randomly to assertion training involving drug-use peer pressure. At posttest and at a three-year follow-up point, students continued to display high levels of assertiveness and less willingness to use alcohol and marijuana. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Drinking, Drug Education, Health Education
Perspectives on Substance Abuse Prevention.
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Horan, John J.; And Others – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1988
Provides review of substance abuse prevention programing over the past 20 years. Describes an empirically promising approach based on teaching assertiveness and decision-making skills and cites the results of a longitudinal evaluation of the assertiveness training component. Concludes with a description of the authors' current program in the…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Decision Making, Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Anger Induction in Assertion Training
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Holmes, David P.; Horan, John J. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
Nonassertive female university student volunteers (N=45) were assigned randomly to one of three individual counseling programs: placebo counseling, standard assertion training, or assertion training incorporating anger induction procedures. The standard method proved superior on a self-report measure but on one of four behavioral ratings the anger…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, College Students
Assertiveness and Patterns of Drug Use; A Pilot Study
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Horan, John J.; And Others – Journal of Drug Education, 1975
Study investigates the relationship between assertiveness and patterns of drug use. Found exploratory use of marijuana and hashish was the norm among this sample of college students. Current users and those never using such drugs were less assertive than those who had experienced these drugs but no longer did so. (Author)
Descriptors: Aggression, Assertiveness, Behavior Patterns, College Students
On The Wisdom of Assertive Job-Seeking Behavior.
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Cianni-Surridge, Mary; Horan, John J. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1983
Summarized employer (N=341) ratings of 16 assertive job-seeking behaviors in terms of whether each would enhance or diminish the applicant's chances for employment. Some behaviors are clearly adaptive; others may be self-defeating. The applicant's sex proved irrelevant. Company size influenced the employment potential of five assertive behaviors.…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Employer Attitudes, Employers, Evaluation Criteria
The Effectiveness of Substance Abuse Prevention Videotapes with Mexican American Adolescents.
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Polansky, Joan M.; Buki, Lydia P.; Horan, John J.; Ceperich, Sherry Dyche; Burows, Deborah Dyer – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1999
The effectiveness of three substance-abuse-prevention videotapes derived from contrasting theoretical frameworks was evaluated using 312 rural Mexican-American students in grades seven through eight. The assertion-training video produced higher levels of assertiveness among ninth-graders; the others had no impact. Discusses the importance of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Comparative Analysis, Culturally Relevant Education