AppRoVE-Social: Assertive (vs. Passive or Provoking) Responding to Others
15-item measure of how a person responds when other people are being difficult, across three relating styles: assertive, aggressive, and submissive/passive. Part of the AppRoVE pair (parallel Social and Voices forms). 11-point (0-10) agreement scale; subscale scores are the mean of their items.
Purpose
Self-report research instrument, reproduced here under an open license for non-diagnostic educational, research, and self-reflection use.
Details
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Citation: Hayward, M., Schlier, B., Strauss, C., Rammou, A., & Lincoln, T. (2026). AppRoVE. Assertive (vs. Passive or Provoking) Responding to Voice-hearing Experiences [Verfahrensdokumentation, Fragebogenversionen AppRoVE-Voices und AppRoVE-Social]. In Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID) (Hrsg.), Open Test Archive. Trier: ZPID. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.22178 This is not a diagnostic tool. If you are in crisis or having thoughts of self-harm, please contact a licensed mental health professional or a crisis helpline in your country immediately. Low/Moderate/High bands below reflect this test's own possible score range only (simple thirds) — they are NOT a clinical threshold or population norm. No such cutoff has been published for this instrument.
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