The typical woman officer from the nation's largest industrial, banking, retail and utility companies is married, at least 50 years of age, has had some college, was born into a family of low or lower middle class income, and has a work salary of less than $30,000. While the number of women officers in leading business organizations is small, the…

The effects of participation in field study programs on levels of anxiety and assertiveness among college students was investigated. Students enrolled in the Great Lakes Colleges Association - Philadelphia Urban Semester, 1976-1977, were systematically assessed for levels of anxiety and related personality dimensions using the Adjective Check List…

This anthology contains eight papers given at a symposium which brought faculty and graduate students together to share their interests and views about the counseling profession. It explores a wide variety of topics: the need for preretirement counseling, the views of elementary counselors regarding their responsibilities in working with the…

This study examined the contribution of cognitively-oriented adjunct treatments to assertive training. Unassertive university students (N=42) were randomly assigned within an analysis of covariance design with three levels of treatment (Cognitive Self-Statement Training (CSST), Attribution Training (AT), and Behavioral Rehearsal (BR]. Multiple…

This review presents a brief history of literature on assertion. It then concentrates on literature published after 1970. The review is divided into two areas: popular books, subdivided into introductory works and more specialized works, and professional books. Materials cited are reviewed and evaluated. (Author/JLL)

Assertive behavior in children is characterized as manipulation and exploration of the environment. Assertive behavior can be nondestructive or destructive. It has been suggested that learning is dependent on assertion and that distortion or inhibition of assertive behavior may restrict or distort the learning process. Fifty Head Start children…

Several authors describe group counseling programs provided by a university counseling center to meet student needs for developing interpersonal communication skills and self-assertion behavior. In response to these needs, the counseling center provided personal growth groups, a proactive black group, a women's group, a marriage growth group, and…

Describes a workshop for women designed to equip themselves for future roles by discussing topics such as assertiveness training, values clarification, decision-making, improvement of communication and interpersonal relationships, role models, futures planning, leadership training, and men-women relationships. (Author/HLM)

This research showed high assertive and low assertive resident assistants could be differentiated on the basis of their effectiveness as judged by dormitory residents. Results show high assertive assistants are significantly more open and honest, communicate better, handle discipline better, and are generally more effective than their low…

Subjects in a T-group tend to decrease reactive attributions. They are perceived as having learned to act, rather than observe and react. T-group change is conjecture. Some learning transfer from group to external environment is expected. (MFD)

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.…

Presents a group counseling model designed to help women in male-dominated college majors prepare for problems which may arise as the result of their nontraditional career choices. The five sessions dealt with school to work transition, assertiveness, support networks, multiple role management, and adjusting to minority status. (JAC)

The last four decades have seen a dramatic increase in the number of women entering employment. This is particularly true in Europe and although more European women are working outside the home, the patterns of female employment have changed very little. An analysis of these patterns is presented. It was found that women continue to dominate…

A process study was conducted in two phases to measure the effects of whether a mother's participation in a Toughlove program improved her child's behavior. During phase 1, small-group Toughlove meetings were used for observation and then were tape-recorded and transcribed. Transcriptions were coded to identify instances of social support;…