assertiveness

The current study explored the relationship between communication and assertiveness in general and sexual contexts and examined each construct's differential ability to predict reported condom use among college students...

..The findings increase the body of knowledge surrounding nursing advocacy as practiced by nurses...

..and Hampson, et al. showed assertiveness, a presumably male-typed personality trait, was not associated with 2D:4D; however, these studies were clearly ..

The aim of this study was to investigate whether a breast cancer diagnosis, personal assertiveness (i.e. frequency of assertive behaviour and tension associated with this behaviour), and partners' relationship-focused coping (i.e...

..This study examined the moderating influence of risk-taking tendency and refusal assertiveness on perceived friends' drinking as associated with alcohol use among inner-city adolescents.

..most powerfully predict individual differences in autonomy-connectedness: body awareness, alexithymia, or assertiveness. The present study examined this question in a clinical sample of women who were diagnosed as having autonomy ..

..Recommendations for practice concern a care relationship and a dialogue with the client, critical ethical reflection, professional autonomy, self-assertiveness and organizational support.

..This heightened awareness was reported to disrupt intimacy and social connectedness while they attempted to make meaning of their experiences and heal...

..To revitalize a career and move away from a burnout state, individuals need to change their thought processes and viewpoints about the people and things that may be contributing to their burnout...

..We investigated the relationship between physicians' patient-centred communication and patient participation in a medical specialist setting...

..Victims of bullying need high levels of assertiveness to enable them to withstand the stress of victimization...

..To extract meaning from registered nurses' lived experiences in their professional collaboration with orthopaedic surgeons...

..01). Further correlations indicated a pattern of association between poverty, age, and sex out of fear of relationship loss or shelter loss. The study indicates a need for a broader definition of HIV-related risk in high-risk populations...

..To describe the social processes used by African American (AA) women ages > or = 50 years in making decisions about mammography screening...

..The results indicate increased confidence and assertiveness, less dependence on the approval of others, greater ability to assert personal needs, increased awareness of ..

To identify evidence on the role of assertiveness and teamwork and the application of aviation industry techniques to improve patient safety for inpatient obstetric care.

..This article will provide an overview of conflict, conflict management, and conflict resolution...

..The purpose is to make visible a phenomenon that needs to be actively fostered or 'en-courage-d' if nursing is to effectively contribute to an improved health service...

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..Additionally, nursing administration content relies heavily on Western and non-nursing theories, some of which have been criticized for male bias...

..It is also shown that at interpersonal level, the self-assertion tendencies of the child are negatively correlated to the emphatic skills of family members...

..The lives of a third group of mothers lacked a coherent narrative structure. Each pattern is presented with a paradigm case...

..However, there is limited information regarding nurses' perceptions of caring for critically ill patients outside of high dependency areas...

..The likely outcomes include improved nursing science and professional development of nurses...

..We conclude that aggression management training may be an effective instrument in the fight against workplace violence...

..In this article, they present their overall findings about the effectiveness of coaching as a leadership development tool and offer recommendations for leaders who are interested in engaging a coach...

..The article points to the need for a model of Hep C care that incorporates the dimensions of the chronic illness experience...

..Only by reporting such incidents can the extent of violence towards nurses be determined and minimised...

..This study adds support for the utility of interventions, such as INSIGHT, that nurture self-emergence among women who have experienced intimate partner violence...

..was used to analyse the following issues: stress, changes, routine, confrontation, comparisons, preferences, support, valuation, assertiveness, self-evaluation, technical competence, affiliation, motivation, work atmosphere and training.

..The training program consisted of two parts: conversational skills and assertiveness skills. Data were collected at pretreatment and posttreatment...

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..The findings of the study indicate the immediate need to address and resolve the issues of diversity within the nursing profession. Nursing will also have to reform its system and practices to embrace and support diversity...

..To explore factors that influence nurses' decisions to raise concerns about standards of practice...

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..Findings indicate that both the quality of patient care and nurses' practice were enhanced as a result of BSN completion programs...

This study developed a quantitative methodology to ascertain the level of self esteem and assertiveness of last year students in baccalaureate degree programs at Cumhuriyet University Nursing School, School for Health Sciences' Midwifery ..

..Most nurses had definite ideas regarding how and by whom their advocacy education and training should be provided...

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..00). Most of the respondents' characteristics were not found to be correlated with mode choices. The findings indicate a need to enhance partnerships in the clinical environment to ensure quality patient care and staff satisfaction...

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..A category that emerged was linked very strongly with professional socialization. The respondents did not refer to professional socialization per se, but through the coding process this emerged as the linchpin of the discussion...

..Further, hospitalization offered women the opportunity to interact with others in similar difficult situations and, hence, feel less isolated...

..Drawing from the data, educational and training strategies are suggested to enhance collaborative practice in the clinical setting of intensive care...

..Studies addressing nurses' traits to improve the quality of nurse-physician communication exist, whereas only a few studies exploring physicians' traits as communication barriers are conducted...

..This study examined patients' experiences talking to their providers about internet health information...

..The aim of the study was to illuminate patients' experiences of dissatisfaction with hospital care...

..Following a discussion of the findings, recommendations relating to future research are made and the limitations of the study are identified...

..Tentative clinical implications are discussed. The study was preliminary in that it was a secondary analysis. Suggestions for further research are outlined...

..I conclude with a discussion of how reforms in medical education must tend to the gendered, everyday realities of women and men in training...

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..such as eye contact, fluency of speech, gestures, and facial expression, as well as conversational skills, assertiveness, and emotional expressiveness...

..Females are also characterized by gender role conflict and low assertiveness. Antidepressants and psychotherapy have important roles in their treatment...

..Because clinical clerkship grades are associated with resident selection and performance and are largely based on residents'/attendings' subjective ratings, it is important to identify variables associated with clinical clerkship grades...

..To describe the Latin American Pharmacist Internship Program, a pilot project to prepare foreign-trained pharmacists for pharmacy licensure in the United States...

..The purpose of this study was to examine the conversational skills of preschool and school-age children with cleft lip and palate...

..Additionally, results suggested a need form the elderly to develop more assertiveness and closeness with their health care providers, both doctor and pharmacist; as well as a lack of sufficient ..

..The findings from the present study revealed that less than 30% of nursing and midwifery students have high assertiveness and only half of them have low anxiety...

..The examination of psychosocial predictors of disease progression in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has focused primarily on depression, coping, and stress, with little attention paid to stable individual differences...

..Health sex education must include the development of effective communication skills, decision-making skills, assertiveness, and the ability to say "no." It must also include ways to create satisfying relationships...

..An HIV transmission risk reduction interactive intervention emphasizing self-esteem, assertiveness and sexual negotiation was offered to 41 drug dependent women...

..Aggression has also been dichotomized as either the benign activity of assertiveness, or the darker destructive force of hostility, believed by many to arise from separate motivational systems...

..To investigate aspects of adolescents' condom use self-efficacy that affect their intended and actual condom use...

..g., assertiveness, hypochondriasis)...

..scored higher on Conscientious factor, and on Achievement Striving, Activity, Competence, Dutifulness, Trust, Assertiveness, and Altruism facets, but they scored lower on the Vulnerability facet than the general population...

..The aim of the study is to clarify the concept of supervision by means of concept analysis, in order to evaluate the concept's application to the practise of public health nurses...

..The study aimed at investigating the prevalence of and factors related to depression in high school students...

..Common themes occurring within the coercion topic areas included guilt, communication/assertiveness skills, blame, drug use, premeditation, fear, sources of help...

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..To compare the efficacy and safety of a novel psychological intervention for smoking cessation called psychodynamic model (PDM) training to an active control condition of sustained-release bupropion...

..Students reported interest in improving their confidence, assertiveness, ability to communicate effectively (including public speaking), ability to listen to others, organizational ..

..compared to the control group, women with histrionic personality were found to have significantly lower sexual assertiveness, greater erotophobic attitudes toward sex, lower self-esteem, and greater marital dissatisfaction...

..e., a motivational disposition comprising enthusiasm, energy, assertiveness, achievement striving and social dominance)...

..The aim of this study is to gain insight into the level of emotional intelligence of mental health nurses in the Netherlands...

..In this paper, such personal characteristics as trait-anxiety, type A/B behavior pattern (TABP/TBBP) are discussed as potential modifiers of individual reaction towards the violence experienced at work...

..were highly professional, the culture within which they practiced tended to stifle the emergence of autonomy, assertiveness, advocacy and accountability...

..Today, the first generations of very low birth weight (VLBW <or= 1500 g) infants are entering adulthood but very little is known of their personality traits, associated with both psychopathological vulnerability and resilience...

..discussion of important issues, and many physicians felt that the process increased their confidence and assertiveness in discussing end-of-life issues with other patients...

..e., cooperation, self-control, assertiveness, and empathy) than program participants who perceived a lower quality relationship with adult providers...

..trustworthiness (ratings of promise and secret keeping by peer group and also by best friend in Study 1), assertiveness (Study 1), prosocial behavior (Study 2), social relationships (friendships and peer preference), and ..

..in turn results in increased hierarchical status in closed social groups) most likely reflects the increased assertiveness and associated externalization of emotions expressed during recovery from depressive illness...

..A number of predictors were gender-specific: sexual assertiveness and condom self-efficacy for women and parental monitoring, traditional morality, HIV knowledge, and talking ..

..the therapy with instruments measuring the intensity of social phobia (Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale), the assertiveness (Rathus Assertiveness Schedule), the disability associated with the disorder (Sheehan Disability Scale), ..

..with key stakeholders, which suggest that the innovation had a positive impact on the nurses' confidence, assertiveness, clinical expertise and approach to change...

..subscales of the 4 questionnaires, revealed a 4-factor solution: Expressive Hostility, Inhibitive Hostility, Assertiveness, and Hostile Cognition...

..We designed the current study to assess the rates of risky sexual behavior among women bar drinkers, as well as differences in predictors of risky sexual behavior, based on partner type-new or regular...

..We explored the existence of moderate drinkers with a high PAE profile, and abusive drinkers with a low PAE profile...

..A large hospital in Sweden was selected for the study, in which downsizing had occurred between 1995 and 1997. The number of staff in the hospital was reduced by an average of 20%, and 10% were relocated to other departments...

..m.. Mood, self- and partner-reported physical and verbal aggression, anger, hostility, irritability, assertiveness, self-esteem, and sexual function were assessed. A single injection of 1000 mg TU i.m...

..To test the differences among the predictors between sexually active and non-active female adolescents...

..ceranae only. Reduced or inhibited N. ceranae spore germination at low temperatures should hamper the infectivity and spread of this pathogen in climatic regions characterized by a rather cold winter season...

..e. the accepted gender roles, level of self-acceptance. The majority of the factors show that the presence of personal initiative and assertiveness are associated with higher level of contraception use.

..These include an increased level of confidence and assertiveness, the development of critical thinking ability, and enhanced communication skills...

..Community mobilization, environmental and school-based strategies were implemented to reduce access, enhance knowledge of risks, and improve assertiveness and refusal skills.

..sexual and physical) and the mediating effects of HIV risk knowledge, condom use skills, sexual negotiation assertiveness, and relationship power on the effectiveness of the woman-focused groups to decrease risk related to drug use, ..

..sexual and physical) and the mediating effects of HIV risk knowledge, condom use skills, sexual negotiation assertiveness, and relationship power on the effectiveness of the woman-focused groups to decrease risk related to drug use, ..

..affective dysregulation and dysfunctional cognitions that prevents them from having adequate communication and assertiveness skills that are necessary in sexual situations...

..hypothesized that adolescents who receive the BART+TM will show greater knowledge of HIV risk, greater sexual assertiveness skills, greater perception of individual HIV risk, fewer perceived barriers to condom use, and fewer HIV risk ..

..design to investigate systematically the effects of three patient factors (gender, race, and level of assertiveness) and three physician factors (gender, race, and years of clinical experience) on the process and content of ..

..suggests that childhood abuse and risk- prone personality (high sensation- seeking, high negative affect, low assertiveness) lead women to engage in risky behaviors in adulthood (heavy alcohol and drug use and exposure to risky ..

..The role of several potential covariates: liking for man, assertiveness, alcohol expectancies, and previous aggression, also will be considered.

..1997). Behavioral components (problem solving. assertiveness) will also be used to enhance coping skills...

..g., assertiveness, communication skills) and personal competence (e.g...

..involving the experience of violence and power imbalances in their relationships that may erode the assertiveness and communication skills necessary for women to protect themselves from HIV...