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The College Women's Assertion Sample (CWAS): A Cross-Validation

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Pamela Tyson

New England Learning Center for Women in Transition, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Two studies were conducted to evaluate the cross-validity of the College Women's Assertion Sample (CWAS), a controlled observational measure of behavioral assertion. The face and content validities of the instrument were cross-validated in Study 1. In Study 2, 74 undergraduate women were tested with a complement of measures designed to assess two behavior constructs, assertion and anxiety, by using two assessment methods, direct observation and self-report. The results supported both the convergent and discriminant cross-validities of the CWAS and suggested certain circumstances in which CWAS data might be preferable to data generated from employing the self-report assertion measures included in this study.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 44, No. 2, 405-412 (1984)
DOI: 10.1177/0013164484442021


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