Do you get what you want? Are you able to effectively voice you complaints, without alienating your audience? This test is designed to effectively measure your level of proper assertiveness. Our six categories will help you discover your assertive strengths and weaknesses, which can take you to the next level of effective communication.

Once you've discovered your personal problem areas of assertiveness, you will learn to communicate in ways that promote equality in human relationships. You reach this equality with a compromise of needs known as "the golden mean." Once you reach "the golden mean," you will be able to act in your own best interests, stand up for yourself, express feelings honestly and comfortably, and finally express personal rights without denying the rights of others.

There are some six areas of interpersonal communication that can interfere with the ability to assert oneself. They are the follows:

• Family - Do you express your needs and feelings to the people you love?
• Friends - Do you allow friends to take advantage of you?
• Public - Do you stand up for your rights to strangers and in public places?
• Passive Aggressive - Do you allow your anger to boil inside, eventually bursting for the wrong reasons?
• Overly Aggressive - Do you walk all over people to get what you want?
• Insecurity - Is shyness preventing you from asserting yourself?

Take our test and answer honestly to find out how properly assertive you are. By the end, you will know the areas that need improvement and the areas where you are properly assertive.