Five of these items showed some DIF in relation to gender (sexual problems, running away, attacking others, being ill without physical cause and problems with teachers) and three in relation to ethnicity (tantrums, not being assertive, talking about suicide).
I learnt to be more assertive to talk to doctors and got medications put back on.
"This could make them more assertive in the talks.
Step can be seen as an assertive style of talking through the body — stomping with boots, slapping one's chest, thighs, and legs, whirling and spinning.
Take an assertive approach to talking with them and one which shows that you're more interested in understanding than in retaliating or telling them off.
Connoisseurs of rarely heard phrases enjoyed the talk of "assertive Canadian behaviour .As is normal at European security conferences, much talk was about America.
These are proud, assertive women I'm talking about, and there were knives nearby.
Brazilian diplomats have staked out an assertive role in preliminary talks, resisting proposals from rich industrialized countries that developing nations should be required to pay more to reduce environmental degradation.
"I learned to be more assertive, and got experience talking before large groups," she said.
Indonesia joined the G20, took an increasingly assertive role in climate-change talks and encouraged pluralism among developing countries at the Bali Democracy Forum.
