How to Change Your Passive Aggressive Behavior
Passive aggressive behavior is the name of a specific attitude and manner which reflects and indicates aggression or any kind of hostility. Experts in human behavior study this behavior with relation to interpersonal interactions. However, it has a broader meaning which is related to a more hostile manner and aggression in non-assertive and subtle ways. Some say it is a personality trait while others say it is a personality disorder which needs to be treated. The people who believe that is a personality trait never treat this behavior seriously and also do not believe in correcting it.
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Understanding passive aggressive behavior
Before going into more detail and getting to know how to correct this disturbing behavior, you will need to understand the term and the actual signs or symptoms of this behavior. Passive aggressive behavior has a wide meaning and people with different set of intellect can take the meaning with their own interpretation. However, in generic term, passive aggressive behavior certainly indicates a hostile manner or aggression complying with subtle non-assertive ways. Some who take passive behavior with passive resistance, sometime confuse the term with conflict theory but on a large scale people and experts believe that passive aggressive behavior means a consistent manner of deliberate actions which creates resistance in the behavior itself. The primary objective is to understand the idea to correct the behavior on a broader scale. Not only will it help the people who have this type of disorder in their mannerism and actions which are certainly aggressive and needed to be corrected. -
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Writing down the past experience
On a personal level if you want to get rid of the passive aggressive behavior, you need to follow some guidelines which has been enlisted by experts around the world. First you need to write down all the past experience of this type of passive aggressive behavior. You also need to understand on which occasion and at what moment you were embarrassed by someone’s comments. These things are very important as it will help you correcting the overall passive aggressive behavior. -
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Expressing feelings when any conflict occurs
You also need to learn as to how you should express any feelings at a time when any conflict occurs. Some say that if you hold your expressions or feelings during any conflict, it will develop into all sorts of frustration as well. -
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Pointing out to someone that has passive aggressive behavior
It is also important that you should point it out to someone that has passive aggressive behavior. It will give them a primary signal that they are suffering from that disorder and hopefully seek some help with this issue.
