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Effects of nurses’ sex‐role orientation on positive and negative assertion
Author(s) -
J McCartan Patrick,
Hargie Owen
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
nursing and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.563
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1442-2018
pISSN - 1441-0745
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2003.00173.x
Subject(s) - assertion , psychology , orientation (vector space) , affect (linguistics) , social psychology , sample (material) , computer science , communication , chemistry , geometry , mathematics , chromatography , programming language
The present paper examines how the sex‐role orientation of the nurse can affect both positive and negative assertion. The Bem Sex‐Role Inventory (BRSI) and the Assertion Inventory (AI) were used to collect self‐reported data from a convenience sample of 94 subjects. Behavioral data were obtained by directly sampling 50 nurses’ responses within role‐play situations. Contrary to earlier studies, the findings of the investigation indicated that there was no significant relationship between assertion measurements and sex‐role orientation. Following a discussion of the findings, recommendations relating to future research are made and the limitations of the study are identified.