2025 Research Involving 2,203 Chinese University Students Uncovers Connection Between Elevated People-Pleasing Scores, Greater Neuroticism, and Reduced Self-Esteem in Three Areas

2025 Research Involving 2,203 Chinese University Students Uncovers Connection Between Elevated People-Pleasing Scores, Greater Neuroticism, and Reduced Self-Esteem in Three Areas

Assertiveness training, extensively studied during the 1970s within clinical psychology, focused on enhancing individuals’ abilities to openly convey preferences, decline requests, and express needs. Researchers Brittany Speed, Benjamin Goldstein, and Marvin Goldfried classified this method as a “transdiagnostic intervention” in a 2018 paper, asserting that assertiveness training has a beneficial effect on a variety of […]

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