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Bay-Cheng, Laina Y.; Zucker, Alyssa N. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2007
To better understand the relation of feminist identification to sexuality, we compared the attitudes of feminist, egalitarian, and nonfeminist undergraduate women (N= 342) in five domains: (a) erotophilia (one's positive affective or evaluative responses to sexual stimuli), (b) sexual assertiveness, (c) perceived self-efficacy for safer sex, (d)…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Females, Disease Control, Self Efficacy
Hebert, Martine; Bergeron, Manon – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2007
This study evaluates the effects of a group intervention for women sexually abused in childhood or adulthood. The sample consisted of 41 women involved in a group intervention based on a feminist approach offered by help centers for sexual assault victims in Quebec and 11 women in a wait-list comparison group. Results reveal that the group…
Descriptors: Group Therapy, Intervention, Sexual Abuse, Violence
Kelly, Jeffrey A.; And Others – 1979
While a great deal of clinical research attention has been directed toward assertive training, there have been few studies examining the social impact or interpersonal evaluation of assertive versus unassertive behavior, including the differential evaluation of assertiveness exhibited by males and females. In this study, subjects observed a…
Descriptors: Aggression, Assertiveness, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis

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

Hollandsworth, James G., Jr.; Wall, Kathleen E. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1977
Differential responding for males and females on individual items from the Adult Self Expression Scale was investigated using four samples. Men report themselves as more assertive in dealing with bosses and supervisors. Women report themselves as more assertive in expressing love, affection, compliments, and anger to one's parents. (Author)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Females

Knudson, Ann D. – Journal of the NAWDAC, 1982
Studied whether women trained in management are as assertive as men with similar training and identified factors that contribute to assertive behavior. Data included measured characteristics and supervisors' job performance ratings. Results indicated that women are as assertive as men and perform equally well on the job. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrators, Assertiveness, Comparative Analysis, Employment Level
Rozema, Hazel J. – 1982
Both women and blacks are often seen as inferior, emotional, harmless, content in their places, and nonverbally submissive, and are subject to overt discrimination in education, employment, and politics. Assertiveness training, a popular means used by women to overcome or combat sexism, could be equally effective in combatting racism. Assertive…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Patterns, Blacks, Communication Skills
Di Noia, Jennifer; Schinke, Steven P. – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2007
This study evaluates the efficacy of Keepin' It Safe, a theory-based, gender-specific, CD-ROM-mediated HIV prevention program for urban, early adolescent girls. Intervention effects were examined in a randomized, pretest-posttest wait-list control-group design. Changes in HIV/AIDS knowledge, protective attitudes, and skills for reducing HIV…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Females, Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Johnson, Carolyn H. – 1984
There is little literature comparing personality differences between traditional (under age 25) and reentry women students (aged 25 and older). The purpose of the present study is to examine these differences. A background questionnaire and five additional scales: (1) the Work and Family Orientation Questionnaire (WOFO-3); (2) the…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Assertiveness, College Students, Comparative Analysis
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
O'Connell, Agnes N. – 1980
Recent research on the effects of women's studies courses has indicated that there are two general approaches to teaching: a concern for competence or mastery and a concern for personal change and advocacy. It was hypothesized that students taking a psychology of women course would become more androgynous and masculine in sex-role concept, more…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Assertiveness, Attitude Change, College Students

Valerio, Helen P.; Stone, Gerald L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1982
Investigated the interaction of demonstrated knowledge of assertive behavior with treatments for nonassertive behavior to clarify the interaction of deficits with treatments. Results failed to support a differential treatment approach to assertion based on demonstrated knowledge. (Author)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Counseling Effectiveness

Hartsook, 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
Reed, Gayle L.; Enright, Robert D. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2006
Emotionally abused women experience negative psychological outcomes long after the abusive spousal relationship has ended. This study compares forgiveness therapy (FT) with an alternative treatment (AT; anger validation, assertiveness, interpersonal skill building) for emotionally abused women who had been permanently separated for 2 or more years…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Females
Hughes, Richard L. – 1982
Personality characteristics among females admitted to the U.S. Air Force Academy were compared to those of male cadets and to females attending other colleges. The Personality Research Form-E (Jackson, 1974) was administered to all 217 females of an entering class at the Academy during the first few days of basic cadet training. Approximately…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Affiliation Need, Assertiveness, Cognitive Style
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