nonassertive


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not aggressively self-assured, though not necessarily lacking in confidence

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Patients with conversion disorder reported significantly more vindictive/self-centered, nonassertive, overly-accommodating and cold/distant behaviours as compared to those with GMDs.
The 2 personalities that control their emotions are the "Accountant" and "Sergeant." For instance, the Accountant is nonassertive and controls emotions.
Compared to Japanese masculine speech, feminine speech has been depicted as gentle, soft, indirect, nonassertive, polite, and powerless.
Deniston, "Neo Personality Inventory Profiles of Assertive and Nonassertive Persons", in Psychological-Reports, 73: 336-338.
Flew's responses are usually very short, nonassertive; Habermas's are expansive.
He felt a quiet manhood, nonassertive but of sturdy and strong blood.
Overall the cultural principles and communication strategies preferred and reflected by COOCs in their commentary responses to life predicaments of Chinese overseas fit the nonassertive accommodation co-cultural communication orientation as identified by Orbe and Spellers (2005).
As can be observed in Figure 5, assertive modality is, quite consistently, the preferred expression of events and situations in the -ing supplementives in the data, but its distribution is not wholly homogeneous across the corpus, as one of the extracts -the opening section of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest- presents a similar presence of assertive and nonassertive predicates (49.21% assertive vs.
Executing the strategy in a global environment dominated by the United States ultimately reveals it is a defensive and nonassertive strategy in nature.
These same females, however, did not expect equal treatment by their spouses and tended to be nonassertive in conflicts.
Drivers need to learn that the nonassertive bus driver and the hostile bus driver will exacerbate discipline issues.
In fact, it is just as well that Manmohan appointed a low profile, nonassertive person like S.
It also included being too "theatrical, "self-dramatizing, and "hyperactive"--while at the same time being "withdrawn" and "nonassertive." According to NARTH, the non-gay homosexual, which is what the organization calls those in therapy, is a deeply conflicted individual.
"Both of these chairs have been generally referred to as being nonassertive, weak and who have also collaborated with the administration in terms of the department losing its space and its resources.
three discrimination management categories: nonassertive, social