assertiveness

Quality of being self-assured and confident without being aggressive

Entitypersonality traitQ920550

Instance of: personality trait

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Assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and confident without being aggressive to defend a right point of view or a relevant statement. In the field of psychology and psychotherapy, it is a skill that can be learned and a mode of communication. Dorland's Medical Dictionary defines assertiveness as:a form of behavior characterized by a confident declaration or affirmation of a statement without need of proof; this affirms the person's rights or point of view without either aggressively threatening the rights of another or submissively permitting another to ignore or deny one's rights or point of view.

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38 statements · 32% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Partially coincident with: confidence
aggressiveness
Different from: aggressiveness
Has effect: assertion

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32 identifiers linking assertiveness across the web's reference databases

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32%

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