Abstract
Fifteen psychiatric patients who showed high assertiveness on behavioral roleplaying tasks were compared with 15 behaviorally unassertive patients on cognitive measures of their perceptions of the role-playing partner, their selection of the most effective response alternatives to the role-playing situations, and their generalized expectations of others in social situations. Highly assertive patients expected more favorable consequences from others in social situations than did low assertive patients. Low assertive patients chose passive alternatives more frequently and assertive alternatives less frequently than did high assertive patients. Comparisons between the response alternatives selected and actual behavior in the situation showed greater discrepancies between response choices and actual behavior for the low assertive patients. The results suggest important cognitive differences between assertive and unassertive patients that require further study.
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