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Peer reviewedDel Greco, Linda; And Others – Adolescence, 1986
Examined the reliability of the 30-item Modified Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (MRAS) using the test-retest method over a three-week period. The MRAS yielded correlations of .74 using the Pearson product and Spearman Brown correlation coefficient. Correlations for males yielded .77 and .72. For females correlations for both tests were .72.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Correlation, Sex Differences
Peer reviewedCrouch, Joyce G.; Neilson, Patricia B. – Adolescence, 1989
Investigated assertiveness of college students (N=200) with different configuration of perceived child-rearing dimensions. Subjects completed Clarke Parent-Child Relations Questionnaire and Rathus Assertiveness Schedule. Findings revealed that students whose perceived child rearing fell into high Father or Mother Identification categories had…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Child Rearing, College Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedRotheram, Mary Jane; Armstrong, Michael – Adolescence, 1980
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Assertiveness, Grade 12
Peer reviewedYesmont, Georgia A. – Adolescence, 1992
Investigated relationship between assertiveness tendencies and safer sex behaviors in 253 heterosexual college students. Hypothesized that assertiveness would vary positively, and nonassertiveness negatively, with caution about engaging in sexual intimacy, inquiring about potential partner's sexually transmitted disease risk history, and frequency…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, At Risk Persons, College Students, Heterosexuality
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 reviewedThompson, Kathryn L.; And Others – Adolescence, 1995
Expanded the curriculum of an assertiveness training program. Found that boys and girls benefited similarly in the cognitive acquisition of assertiveness information from this program. Discusses results in terms of the difference between having stored symbolic information regarding assertive responses and in recognizing appropriate contexts for…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Child Behavior, Children, Cognitive Measurement
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
