@article{ref1,
title="Generalization effects of coping-skills training: influence of self-defense training on women's efficacy beliefs, assertiveness, and aggression",
journal="Journal of applied psychology",
year="2000",
author="Weitlauf, J. C. and Smith, Ronald E. and Cervone, D.",
volume="85",
number="4",
pages="625-633",
abstract="Concern for personal safety is a pervasive stressor for many women. Developing competencies in physical self-defense may empower women to engage more freely in daily activities with less fear. This study assessed the effects of physical self-defense training on multiple aspects of women's perceived self-efficacy and other self-reported personality characteristics. Training powerfully increased task-specific (self-defense) efficacy beliefs as well as physical and global efficacy beliefs. Training increased self-reported assertiveness, and posttraining decreases in hostility and aggression were found on several of the subscales of The Aggression Questionnaire (A. H. Buss & M. Perry, 1992), indicating that training did not have an aggression-disinhibiting effect. In the experimental condition, most of the effects were maintained (and some delayed effects appeared at follow-up.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-9010",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}