This article reviews the differences between two types of workshops and a control group on the development of positive interviewing skills. An assertiveness training group, combined with the presentation of interviewing skills and a didactic group, were the two treatments. (Author)

As measured by a variety of dependent variables, assertion training was effective in modifying assertive behavior but ineffective with aggressive behavior in a group of low-assertive but aggressive college women. (Author)

The effects of modeling and rehearsal in counseling nonassertive adolescents were examined by randomly assigning subjects (Ss) to one of five treatment groups: modeling plus rehearsal (MR), modeling only (M), rehearsal only (R), placebo control (P), or delayed-treatment control (C). Significant (p < .05) main effects for treatment were found on…

Investigation compared outcomes among a six-hour, one-session-only assertion training workshop model, a six-week one-hour session per week assertion training model, and a control group. (Author/PD)

Investigated the effect of personal growth and assertive training classes on the sex-role self-concept of 116 women in personal growth classes and 70 women in assertive training. Subjects increased their acceptance of masculine characteristics. (Author)

The efficacy of training as a mode of treatment has been tried in many settings with a variety of populations. This study utilizes assertive training as a mode of treatment. Results indicate assertive training as having both positive and negative effects as perceived by trainees and their spouses. (Author)

The purpose of the present investigation was (a) to examine the effect of two variables in developing assertive behavior using covert modeling and (b) to develop a technique to assess ongoing imagery during treatment. The results indicated that imagining multiple models or model reinforcement enhanced behavior change. (Author)

The effects of instructional variations during a role playing assessment on the assertive behavior of untrained, low assertive college students were investigated. Based on the responses of 1,392 students, 80 students who indicated a moderate to severe problem in refusing requests, and expressed interest in an assertion training workshop, were…

This paper summarizes the results of a follow-up questionnaire sent to women (N=130) who participated in assertive training programs offered over a four semester period (fall, 1973 through fall, 1974) at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the Extension Division. (Author)

It is proposed that clinicians should develop research-based assertiveness training procedures for homosexuals that are designed to facilitate homosexual functioning. Subjects (N=27) were assigned to a behaviorally oriented assertive training group or a non-directive group run by a homosexual guidance service. Self-report measures indicated…

Ten weeks of assertion training was provided to eight mental hospital paraprofessionals. These trained subjects served as either counselor or counselee in a microcounseling session with eight paraprofessionals who were untrained in assertion training. Assertion-trained counselors were superior to untrained counselors on a set of…

The study reports the results of a one-year follow-up of group assertive training with nonassertive college students. One year after training, experimental and control subjects were significantly different on two self-report measures and two of four behavioral measures of assertiveness. (Author)

A study of dating behavior by McDaniel was replicated, using a single adult population instead of college undergraduates. The hypothesis stated that recreational dating was associated with peer orientation, low commitment and assertive behavior; that mate selection dating was associated with family orientation, medium commitment and…

To improve resident assistant job performance in a large university setting, a six-hour training program was developed to increase the assertive behavior of resident assistants. The program combined assertive training techniques with simulated residence hall job performance situations. Results indicate significant increases for the training group…

This study examines differences in the perceptions of 200 college students toward Carkhuff-defined facilitative conditions as a treatment, and a specific behavioral treatment, assertive training. Ratings indicated the behavioral-treatment counselor was seen as more expert and appealing than the facilitative-conditions counselor. (Author)