TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Generalization effects of coping-skills training: influence of self-defense training on women's efficacy beliefs, assertiveness, and aggression
JO  - Journal of applied psychology
A1  - Weitlauf, J. C.
A1  - Smith, Ronald E.
A1  - Cervone, D.
SP  - 625
EP  - 633
VL  - 85
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0021-9010
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -