title: Assessment of assertiveness in drug abusers.
abstract: Administered measures of assertion, social assertion, aggression, and social anxiety to a heroin-addicted population, psychotic outpatients, court-referred drug users and a college student group (N = 114). The addicts and court-referred drug patients were less assertive, less socially assertive, and more socially anxious than non-addict populations. Furthermore, the heroin and psychiatric outpatient groups had a very high correlation between their assertion and aggression scores, which was not found in the college student or court-referred, drug-using group.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001242:Assertiveness; D005260:Female; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000523:psychology; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*