2007-03-18 14:26:34 · 14 answers · asked by mesmerized 5 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
Passive-aggressive: Pertaining to behavior in which feelings of aggression are expressed in passive ways as, for example, by stubbornness, sullenness, procrastination, or intentional inefficiency.
The term passive-aggressive behavior was coined by military psychiatrists in a 1945 US War Department technical bulletin to describe soldiers who employed a mixture of passive resistance and grumbling compliance.
2007-03-18 14:37:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way I could describe it is like this ...
Imagine a scenario where you've been invited to a party that you really don't want to go to.
An agressive person may just argue and refuse to go.
A passive agressive person would, for example, take hours getting ready so that they were so late there would be little point in going.
Hope this helps
2007-03-18 22:39:38 · answer #2 · answered by Rainbow-Taster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To find a definition, just talk to my mother-in-law for a few minutes! lol. Passive agressive means someone who gets their way by making other people feel bad. Like "sure you can go out, I'll be fine here all by myself...hopefully I don't fall down the stairs with no one here to help me...." Things like that.
2007-03-18 14:30:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Passive aggressive is a personality disorder that people struggle with. Symptoms include when slighted or harassed they tend to stuff their anger until it becomes to great and they explode, hence it is very unpredicatable. People who stuff their emotions use this as a defense mechanism to attain sanity (it doesn't work only makes things worse). They stuff there rage and anger and don't deal with their feelings. There are numerous articles on the web. They can explain it better than I can as I am in recovery myself. It may sound like psycho-babble but there really is some truth b/c I'm living it.
2007-03-18 14:36:22 · answer #4 · answered by bigdaddy 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Passive-aggressive behaviour refers to passive, each and every so often obstructionist resistance to authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational circumstances. it could take place itself as resentment, stubbornness, procrastination, sullenness, or repeated failure to end asked initiatives for which one is assumed, frequently explicitly, to be in charge. it extremely is a protecting posture and, frequently, in basic terms partly unsleeping. as an occasion, people who're passive-aggressive ought to take see you later to get waiting for a party they do no longer desire to attend, that the party is almost over by the time they arrive. Passive Agressive is likewise a track by Placebo.
2016-10-02 08:41:35 · answer #5 · answered by logston 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are certain behaviors that help identify passive-aggressive behavior. [3]
Ambiguity
Avoiding responsibility by claiming forgetfulness
Blaming others
Chronic lateness and forgetfulness
Complaining
Does not express hostility or anger openly
Fear of authority
Fear of competition
Fear of dependency
Fear of intimacy
Fosters chaos
Intentional inefficiency
Making excuses and lying
Obstructionism
Procrastination
Resentment
Resists suggestions from others
Sarcasm
Sullenness
A passive-aggressive may not have all of these behaviours, and may have other non-passive-aggressive traits.
2007-03-18 14:32:00 · answer #6 · answered by Tink 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It means someone who doesn't say much, argues little but manages to get his way most of the time. Another words he is passive, but somehow he controls. I say he because I was married to one of those. I would rant and rave, and he wouldn't say anything, I would feel stupid and he would get what ever it was he wanted at that time.
2007-03-18 14:31:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of, relating to, or having a personality disorder characterized by habitual passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in occupational or social situations, as by procrastination, stubbornness, sullenness, and inefficiency.
2007-03-18 14:29:40 · answer #8 · answered by Disco Mudda 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My husband calls me this and I really am not totally sure but I think its being agressive in a non-physical way, maybe sarcasm or something like that.
2007-03-18 14:30:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY CLUSTER
Passive-aggression is a learned behavior often developed in response to overcontroling parents during childhood. Later this "overcontrol" might be projected onto authority figures like bosses, teachers, and spouses. Sometimes this unassertive behavior may be modeled within families. Because it's a learned behavior, passive-aggression can be replaced by developing an awareness of this behavior and the anger behind it as well as learning and applying assertive behaviors.
Passive-aggression is currently unlisted as a personality disorder in the DSM-IV although it might make a comeback after further research.
What are the signatures of passive aggressive behavior and the folks who've learned to operate in this indirectly aggressive way? Persons who act in passive aggressive ways do some of the following:
*Have difficulty saying no to persons viewed as authorities. In seeming to outwardly comply with requests, the passive aggressive person will procrastinate, leave work undone, obstruct, do an insular job, do what was not requested, misplace, or "forget" to perform the requested tasks. When asked about their problem with delivering, the person with passive aggression is likely to make excuses, blame, or become sullen while claiming only good intentions.
*Often feels put upon, controlled, pressured, and victimized.
*Frequently is involved in fibbing, omitting information, or lying to avoid direct confrontation.
*Prone to "cheating" and being found out in long-term relationships and marriages.
*Often has challenges paying bills in a timely manner and may have a poor credit history.
*Likely has a history of poor interpersonal relationships where friends and partners are frustrated by indirectness and passive aggressive behaviors.
*Will make dates and stand people up.
*May be in denial about passive aggressive behaviors, claiming only good intentions.
*Are frequently in trouble in work situations for excessive tardiness and incomplete tasks.
*Have high rates of somatic complaints and headaches.
*May abuse alcohol and substances.
*Have a higher incidence of depression.
*In relationships may complain about partners to third parties instead of discussing issues directly with their partners.
*Chronically "forgets" to do important tasks whether for self or others.
*Claim to "do too much" for others.
*Giving a yes when actually meaning no.
*Submissive on the surface.
*Attempts to block or frustrate others (With underlying anger).
*Seeding conflict between others and gossiping.
*Giving mixed signals: unclear yes and no's.
*Criticalness, subtle denigration, leaking hurtful information, sarcasm.
*Complaining about bosses, authorities, teachers, spouses behind their backs.
*Denial of emotions.
*Holding back on important information.
*Hunting for negative traits to avoid intimacy.
*Lack of commitment.
*Arguments and temper tantrums coming out of nowhere.
*Withholds important information.
*Wavering on courses of action.
*Angry about being powerless, yet not able to assert this.
*Sensitive about having requests made to them.
*Often lagging in education and careers.
*Fearful of being disliked.
2007-03-18 21:14:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋