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Peer reviewedLinehan, Marsha M.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Compared effectiveness of group assertion therapy with individual assertion therapy. Results indicated no significant differences between group v individual assertion training. Pre-, post-, and follow-up measures demonstrated that both treatments were effective in increasing assertive behavior skills and in reducing hostility and anger. Treatment…
Descriptors: Adults, Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Change Strategies
Peer reviewedHolmes, 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
Joanning, Harvey – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1976
Subjects (N=18) were treated for social nonassertion, nine in a behavioral rehearsal group and nine in an eclectic nonrehearsal group. Comparisons were made based on physiological, behavioral, and self-report measures. Both treatment groups displayed statistically significant increases in assertive behaviors. (Author)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Change, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedTwentyman, Craig T.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1980
Assessed the effectiveness of covert modification procedures in an assertion training program. All treatment groups were superior to the control in behavioral ratings of assertiveness during the posttest in those situations that had been employed previously in treatment; two were superior in those that had not been used, providing evidence of…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Rating Scales
Terrill, Marilyn J. – 1978
The process of assertive behavior change of college women who received assertion training (AT) and cognitive restructuring was examined to assess the relative effects of different durations of exposure to cognitive restructuring. Undergraduate and graduate women students (N=27) at a state university volunteered and were screened for AT groups.…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedHartsook, Judith E.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
This study compared personality characteristics of 25 volunteers for a women's assertiveness group with a control group of vocational counselees and the norm group on the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS). Results suggested that women are highly concerned with the approval of others, moderately inhibited in expressing their feelings, but…
Descriptors: Aggression, Assertiveness, Behavior Change, College Students
