Asertividad: problemas de definición y de medición -versión preliminar de una prueba-

• Autores: Meza, Anibal, Lazarte, Carmen
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 1984
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/4488
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/psicologia/article/view/4488
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto

Relationships among non-assertion, timidness and social anxiety are commented firstly. Then, items of assessment devices on assertion are analyzed, stressing the fact that non-assertive answers cou Id beco me its contrary be cause of axiologic factors. From conceptual delimitations made throug hout, it comes that a) timidness is a personality trait; social anxiety and non-assertion are specific habits and behaviors included in it; b) nonassertion consists of an unbalancing condition on a kind of verbal interactions requiring overt expression of ideas ami feelings; e) social anxiety -evaluated by Willoughby lnventoryturns out to be a neurotic componen t. Analysis of formal and content aspects of Assertion lnventory by Rathus derive on lacks of consistency on how items were constructed and a doubtful content validity. Finally, and Assertion Test is proposed: its first section controls influence of axiologic factors, the second measures non-assertion per se and the third one allows information about non-verbal expressive factors. At presenta Research is being conducted for establishing validity and fiability sígns.