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Mental Disorders > Personality Disorders > Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder

Preferred term

Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Disorder, Negativistic Personality
  • Disorder, Passive-Aggressive Personality
  • Disorders, Negativistic Personality
  • Disorders, Passive-Aggressive Personality
  • Negativistic Personality Disorder
  • Negativistic Personality Disorders
  • Passive-Aggressive Personalities
  • Passive Aggressive Personality
  • Passive-Aggressive Personality
  • Passive Aggressive Personality Disorders
  • Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorders
  • Personalities, Passive-Aggressive
  • Personality Disorder, Negativistic
  • Personality Disorder, Passive Aggressive
  • Personality Disorder, Passive-Aggressive
  • Personality Disorders, Negativistic
  • Personality Disorders, Passive Aggressive
  • Personality Disorders, Passive-Aggressive
  • Personality, Passive-Aggressive

Scope note

  • 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)

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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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010324

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