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Kratz, Lillian B.; Hall, Marilyn H. – 1987
This document describes an experiential workshop which focuses on the application of key communication strategies to alleviate relationship problems between older parents and their adult children. Three communication devices are outlined which can make possible an exchange of ideas and opinions and promote an increased understanding between parent…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Family Relationship
Norris City-Omaha Community Unit District #3, IL. – 1986
The purpose of teaching vocational ethics is to provide students with the opportunity to develop an enabling work ethic. An enabling work ethic is an integrated system of attitudes, values, and beliefs that empower a worker to resolve ethical conflict within self and between and among self and others or situations so as to promote individual job…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Conflict Resolution, Elementary Secondary Education, Empathy
Schwarz, Norbert; And Others – 1984
In studies examining the influence of recall on judgments, social psychologists have generally concentrated on the content of recalled material rather than on the process of recall. To investigate the impact of recalled behaviors (content) and the ease with which these behaviors came to mind (process) on assessment of one's own assertiveness, 158…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Bufford, Rodger K.; Parker, Thomas G., Jr. – 1985
This study was designed to explore the concurrent validity of the Spiritual Well-being Scale (SWB). Ninety first-year student volunteers at an evangelical seminary served as subjects. As part of a larger study, the students completed the SWB and the Interpersonal Behavior Survey (IBS). The SWB Scale is a 20-item self-report scale. Ten items…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Measures, Aggression, Assertiveness
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Watson, John Joseph; Remer, Rory – 1982
Because people are separate individuals, interpersonal conflict is inevitable. Social psychologists have studied this area by examining styles of conflict resolution such as negotiation/bargaining. Counseling psychologists have attempted to address these concerns through assertiveness and aspects of parenting training. However, no specific model…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Change Strategies
Remer, Rory – 1982
Social psychologists have studied interpersonal conflict by examining styles of conflict resolution such as negotiation/bargaining. Counseling psychologists have attempted to address these concerns through assertiveness and aspects of parenting training. In a previous study, a three-component confrontation model--specified behavior, emotional…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Change Strategies
Allen, Mary J.; Sethi, Renuka R. – 1981
A quest for knowledge about the behavior and development of people in other parts of the world, concerns for social action, and greater family mobility have led to an increased interest in cross-cultural research. Male (N=112) and female (N=113) college students in India rated the desirability of 104 traits for Indian men or for Indian women. The…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Bugental, Daphne B.; And Others – 1980
Sixty undergraduate women interacted in dyads with female experimental confederates in a study of the interactive effects of social attributions and environmental controllability on interpersonal assertion. The environment was systematically varied on two dimensions of social power or control: (1) social responsiveness of the confederate, and (2)…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Attribution Theory, Behavioral Science Research, Communication Research
Spitzberg, Brian H. – 1980
This paper examines the essential skill components involved in interpersonal competence and the relationship between a deficit of such skills and loneliness. The various sections of the paper discuss the nature of loneliness, the nature of interpersonal competence, the causes of competence and incompetence, and the relationship between the…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Communication Apprehension, Communication Problems, Interpersonal Competence
Mauger, Paul A.; And Others – 1978
The differences between aggressiveness and assertiveness were examined using the Interpersonal Behavior Survey (IBS), a 136-item self-report questionnaire which was developed to distinguish between assertive and aggressive behaviors. Item level factor analysis was used in scale construction. Results indicated that: (1) the correlation between the…
Descriptors: Adults, Assertiveness, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales
Reis, Susan L. – 1978
An alternate approach to traditional job search methods which may be helpful to women is presented. The following five strategies are considered: (1) know what you want; (2) develop a network of professional contacts to help identify the hidden job market; (3) be selective in the job search; (4) research job openings thoroughly before deciding to…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Career Choice, Career Planning, Employment Interviews
Nickerson, Eileen T. – 1976
This paper links the sex stereotypic socialization of women towards passivity and insignificance theoretically and empirically with the greater incidence of learned helplessness and depression in contemporary American women as compared to men. The case is made for a more androgynous, self-directed and undepressed person, female or male, and both…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research
Licata, Joseph W. – 1979
The relationship between student brinkmanship, defined as an assertive student behavior which attempts to challenge school authority while avoiding negative sanctions, and classroom social structure in five secondary school classrooms was investigated through a field study. Subjects were 185 students in a small rural high school in Georgia.…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Environment, Field Studies
Zimmerman, Jeff; Handfield, Victoria – 1976
The concept and training procedures of a university-based, student-operated program designed to help other students in the area of academic effectiveness is described in this training manual. The manual offers the guidelines for training peer counselors in the techniques of individual academic counseling, group leadership skills in a co-leadership…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Assertiveness, Behavior Change, College Students
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Leaper, Campbell – Sex Roles, 1987
Each of 76 unacquainted pairs of male-female college students was given a popular issue to discuss for five minutes. Self-perceived agency was significantly associated with verbal assertiveness: high-agency persons used fewer indirect statements and fewer passive self-references than low-agency persons. (Author/LHW)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research
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