The College Self-expression Scale, a measure of assertiveness, and the eight aggression-hostility scales of the Buss-Durkee Inventory were administered to 100 female and 71 male college students to establish further construct validity for the former test. The only significant and positive correlation was between the assertiveness scale and the verbal aggression scale for the female sample. The other Buss-Durkee scales were either unrelated or inversely related to assertiveness. In most instances, the amount of shared variance between the scales was small.
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