What is Measured in Studying the Effectiveness of Assertiveness Training?

[Abstract] This study examines measurements of the effectiveness of assertiveness training in articles that have been published after 2000. Using keywords such as "assertive" and "training", 52 articles were obtained through the search engines - CiNii, WEB of Knowledge, and PsycINFO^[○R]). Analysis of these articles revealed three issues. First, confusion between the two different types of effectiveness measured in the studies should be resolved. Second, in the case of self-evaluation scales and role-play evaluation, efforts should be made to distinguish between assertive communication and aggressive communication on the basis on the theoretical framework of assertiveness. Third, no attention has been paid to the discrepancy between self-evaluation and evaluations by others (including assertiveness trainers). Examinations of this discrepancy would yield valuable implications for assertiveness training in future.著者専攻: 社会心理