%0 Journal Article %T La auto-Imagen del puertorrique o %A Alba Nydia Rivera %J Revista Latinoamericana de Psicolog¨ªa %D 1982 %I Fundaci¨®n Universitaria Konrad Lorenz %X Puerto Ricans have been considered docile and submissive people. In order 10 test this hypothesis, 26 scales were designed and applied to 297 subjects, students and workers. male and female. Assertiveneu and docility were especially studied, Results were analyzed in relation to sex andoccupation. Collective perception, self-perception, and assertiveness were different in each group. Although a number of 8ubjects were docile and meek, not all the Puerto Ricans studied were io. Dodlity and assertiveness are considered leamed and not innate, and consequence 01 social conditions %U http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=80514107