Aoki, S. K., Mearns, J., & Robinson Kurpius, S. E. (2017). Social anxiety and assertiveness:
The role of self-beliefs in Asian Americans and European Americans.
Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 39, 263-274.
This study compared Asian Americans and European Americans in assertiveness. Self-beliefs predicted both social anxiety and assertiveness regardless of participant race/ethnicity. Also, less social anxiety predicted more assertiveness, regardless of one's NMRE, a self-belief.