Behavior
Express your feelings and wants as though any other view is unreasonable or stupid. Dismiss, ignore, or insult the needs, wants, and opinions of others.
What is Aggressive Communication Style
Make yourself small. Look down,hunch your shoulders, avoid eye contact. Speak softly.
Passive Style
The following are beliefs held by the passive-aggressive style of communication:
Your needs are more important and more justified than theirs. You have rights, they don't. Your contributions are valuable. Theirs are silly, wrong, or worthless.
True or False?
False. What is Aggressive
Fear of rejection. Helplessness, frustration, and anger. Resentment toward others who "use" you. Reduced self-respect
What is Passive
The goal of the passive style is to get your own way without having to take responsibility. True or false?
False. Passive-aggressive
The passive-aggressive style of communication includes the following behaviors:
Keep quiet. Don’t say what you feel, need, or want. Put yourself down frequently. Apologize when you express yourself. Deny that you disagree with others or feel differently
True or False
False. What is the Passive Style
This style usually mimics the passive style
What is Passive-Aggressive
The following are beliefs often associated with the aggressive style:
You are entitled to get your own way, even after making commitments to others. You are not responsible for your actions.
True or False?
What is False. Passive-aggressive style
You feel positive about yourself and the way you treat others. Self-esteem rises.
What is Assertive
The goal of the passive-aggressive style is to avoid conflict. Please others at any expense to yourself. Give others control over you.
False. What is Passive
Describe behaviors of the Assertiveness style
Express your needs, wants, and feelings directly and honestly. Don’tassume you are corrector that everyone will feel the same way. Allow others to hold other views without dismissing or insulting them.
Nonverbal characteristics of Aggressive Style
Make yourself large and threatening. Eye contact is fixed and penetrating. Voice is loud, perhaps shouting.
List common beliefs of the passive style
Other's needs are more important than yours. They have rights; you don't. Their contributions are valuable. Yours are worthless
Others’needsaremore importantthanyours.They haverights;youdon’t.Their contributionsarevaluable. Yoursareworthless.
Aggressive
Angry or powerful at the time, and victorious when you win. Afterward: remorse, guilt, or self-hatred for hurting others.
Goals of the assertive style
Both you and others keep your self-respect. Express yourself without having to win all the time. No one controls anyone else
Passive-Aggressive behaviors
Failure to meet the expectations of others through “deniable” means: forgetting, being delayed, and soon. Deny personal responsibility for your actions.
Name the nonverbal characteristics of the Assertive style
Body is relaxed, movements are casual. Eye contact is frequent but not glaring.
Common beliefs held by the assertive style
Your needs and those of others are equally important. You have equal rights to express yourselves. You both have something valuable to contribute. You are responsible for your behavior
Passive-aggressive
Fear that you would be rejected if you were more assertive. Resentment at the demands of others. Fear of being confronted.
Goals of Aggressive
Win at any expense to others. Gain control over them.