Effect of Assertiveness Training on Adaptive and Aggressive Assertiveness in Nurses

Adaptive and Aggressive Assertiveness Scales (AAA-S)

Diminished assertiveness has been associated with neuroticism, depression, and anxiety. Although many assertiveness instruments have been developed for research and clinical purposes, one common shortcoming is a lack of discriminant validity with regard to aggression. Further, the wording of many instruments is outdated and discriminatory. The goal of the present research was to develop a more ...

The effect of assertiveness training on student's academic anxiety.

INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE Academic anxiety is an important educational problem that affects millions of students in colleges and schools over the world each year. Although a low level of anxiety can cause positive motivation for improvement of educational functioning, high levels of it can cause a disturbance in concentration, attention, storage of knowledge, recall and educational reduction. It...

Hispanic construction workers and assertiveness training.

BACKGROUND Hispanic (Latino) construction workers experience disparities in occupational death and injury rates in the United States. The cultural value of respect for those in authority may hinder these workers from requesting safe working conditions from supervisors. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether Hispanic construction workers in Las Vegas, Nevada found assertiveness training more useful tha...

Effectiveness of assertiveness training in modifying aggressive behaviors of young children.

Assertiveness and Narcissism

Scores on the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS) were positively related to measures of healthy narcissism and inversely related to empathic distress, anxiety, and depression. Partial correlational procedures controlled for the tendency of healthy and unhealthy forms of narcissism to be linked together and revealed the RAS to be inversely associated with maladaptive narcissism. This same basic...

The Personality Background of BSc Student Nurses ’ Assertiveness

Consultant: Dr. Kornélia Helembai, college professor and head of department, candidate in psychology studies Official Reviewers: Dr. Zoltán Balogh, college associate professor, Ph.D. Fáyné Dr. Alice Dombi, college professor and head of the department, candidate in pedagogy studies President of the Examination Committee: Dr. Iván Forgách, professor, Prof. Emeritus Members of the Examination Comm...