title: The effect of two kinds of role playing on self-evaluation of improved assertiveness.
abstract: The study investigated the "differential effect of role-playing enactments" hypothesis through self-evaluations of improvement in assertiveness by participants in an assertive training program. Twenty-two nonassertive Israeli students were trained in two groups: mimetic-replications (action modeling, n = 12) and spontaneous (self-produced action, n = 10) role-playing interventions. Comparisons of their scores on the Self-Expression College Scale (CSES) before and after the training showed that both groups significantly improved their self-evaluations, but the mimetic-replication group did better. In particular, this group scored significantly higher on the CSES first factor (the willingness to take risks in situations that involved other, significant persons).
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Kipper
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001242:Assertiveness; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D008297:Male; D012381:Role Playing; D012649:Self Concept