title: Self-defeating personality, argumentativeness, and assertive self-statements.
abstract: 55 men and 55 women were administered Schill's Self-defeating Personality Scale, an argumentativeness scale, and a measure of assertive self-statements. Women with higher scores on the Self-defeating Personality Scale had lower scores on the argumentativeness scale. Both men and women scoring higher on the Self-defeating Personality Scale recalled having thoughts which inhibited them from making assertive statements. These results were discussed as supporting prior research showing that persons reporting more self-defeating characteristics were relatively unassertive.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 62901-6502, USA.
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authors.lastname: Schill
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001242:Assertiveness; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012649:Self Concept; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology