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Peer reviewedWehr, Sara H.; Kaufman, Melvin E. – Adolescence, 1987
Investigated the effects of assertive training on measures of assertiveness, state anxiety, and mathematics performance in highly anxious ninth graders (N=96). Found that assertive training resulted in increased assertiveness and decreased state anxiety, with no significant effect on mathematics performance, and no significant effect due to sex.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Counseling Techniques
Peer reviewedDel Greco, Linda; And Others – Adolescence, 1986
Seventh graders (N=161) participated in health education classes consisting of either an innovative smoking education program, the program plus assertiveness training, or a traditional smoking education program. Data collected four years later revealed no significant differences in smoking behavior, changes in assertion, or sex differences among…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Health Education, High School Students
Peer reviewedCameron, Deborah – Applied Linguistics, 1994
Examines communication training aimed at women, such as assertiveness training, as an example of linguistics applied to real-world problems and argues that both the problem and the proposed solution are sociolinguistically and politically misconstrued. Such training often makes overgeneralizations regarding women's communication skills and assumes…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Females
