diff --git a/docs/api.md b/docs/api.md
index d01cc649ba..a55ea777fc 100644
--- a/docs/api.md
+++ b/docs/api.md
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
   * The amount of time elapsed between sending the request and calling `close()` on the corresponding response received for that request.
   [total_seconds()](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.timedelta.total_seconds) to correctly get
   the total elapsed seconds.
-* `def .raise_for_status()` - **Response**
+* `def .raise_for_status()` - **Self**
 * `def .json()` - **Any**
 * `def .read()` - **bytes**
 * `def .iter_raw([chunk_size])` - **bytes iterator**
diff --git a/httpx/_models.py b/httpx/_models.py
index 67d74bf86b..c365208968 100644
--- a/httpx/_models.py
+++ b/httpx/_models.py
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ def has_redirect_location(self) -> bool:
             and "Location" in self.headers
         )
 
-    def raise_for_status(self) -> Response:
+    def raise_for_status(self) -> typing.Self:
         """
         Raise the `HTTPStatusError` if one occurred.
         """