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Abstract
A personality disorder characterized by an indirect resistance to demands for adequate social and occupational performance; anger and opposition to authority and the expectations of others that is expressed covertly by obstructionism, procrastination, stubbornness, dawdling, forgetfulness, and intentional inefficiency. (Dorland, 27th ed)
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- Negativistic Personality Disorder
- Passive Aggressive Personality Disorders
- Passive-Aggressive Personality
- Personality Disorder, Passive-Aggressive
- Personality Disorders, Passive Aggressive
- Disorder, Negativistic Personality
- Disorder, Passive-Aggressive Personality
- Disorders, Negativistic Personality
- Disorders, Passive-Aggressive Personality
- Negativistic Personality Disorders
- Passive Aggressive Personality
- Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder
- Passive-Aggressive Personalities
- Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorders
- Personalities, Passive-Aggressive
- Personality Disorder, Negativistic
- Personality Disorder, Passive Aggressive
- Personality Disorders, Negativistic
- Personality Disorders, Passive-Aggressive
- Personality, Passive-Aggressive
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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History Note
91(81); was see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1981-90; was PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1968-80
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WM 190.5.P3
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010324. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010324
- Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive%E2%80%93aggressive_personality_disorder
- Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28823477