Self‐reports of children in treatment: Is assertiveness in the eyes of the beholder?

Schneider, Barry H.; Ledingham, Jane E.; Poirier, Carol A.; Oliver, J. M.; Byrne, Barbara M.

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“…Analogue studies with adults have discovered that refusal assertion is viewed more negatively than either emphatic refusal (Kern, 1982;Woolfolk & Dever, 1979) or commendatory (Schroeder, Rakos, & Moe, 1983) assertive behavior, and that there exists a positive and significant relationship between assertiveness and likeability when ratings of refusal and commendatory assertive behavior are combined (Levin & Gross, 1984). Similarly, three studies (Ollendick, 1983;Schneider, Ledingham, Poirier, Oliver, & Byrne, 1984;Wojnilower & Gross, 1984) utilizing self-report instruments in order to examine the relationship between assertiveness and likeability in children have found that behaving assertively does not necessarily lead to being liked. While these three investigations did employ measures that assessed behavior in situations requiring both refusal and commendatory assertion skills, they failed to discriminate between the two constructs.…”

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Knowledge, Perception, and Performance of Assertive Behavior in Children with Learning Disabilities

Wojnilower

Gross

1988

J Learn Disabil

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The relationships among knowledge, perception, and performance of assertive behavior in children with learning disabilities were examined. Thirty-two boys were administered a self-report assertiveness inventory to assess social knowledge. Social performance was measured via an unobtrusive role-play test. The youngsters' teachers also rated the youths' social skill level. Subjects rated videotapes of peers displaying assertive and unassertive behavior. This served as a measure of social perception of assertiveness. Lastly, sociometrics were collected. Data analyses revealed no significant interrelationship among the three components of social competence. Teacher ratings of subject assertive behavior were positively and significantly related to likeability as rated by sociometrics, but the relationship between subject response to the unobtrusive roleplay test and likeability was nonsignificant. Despite these equivocal findings, assertive behavior was more highly valued than nonassertive behavior. Cognitive ability was also found to be a positive predictor of social perception. Implications of these findings are discussed.

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