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Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder MeSH Descriptor Data 2025
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)
Entry Version
PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY DIS
Entry Term(s)
Negativistic Personality Disorder
Passive Aggressive Personality Disorders
Passive-Aggressive Personality
Personality Disorder, Passive-Aggressive
Personality Disorders, Passive Aggressive
NLM Classification #
WM 190.5.P3
Public MeSH Note
91; was see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1981-90; was PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1968-80
Online Note
use PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER to search PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY 1975-80; use PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1968-74
History Note
91(81); was see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1981-90; was PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1968-80
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)