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MeSH Heading: Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder
Tree Number(s): F03.675.625
Unique ID: D010324
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010324
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)
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
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1997/06/20

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Concept UI: M0015999
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)
Terms: Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder Preferred Term
Term UI T030498
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1975); Passive-Aggressive Personality
Term UI T030494
Date05/21/1980
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Passive Aggressive Personality Disorders
Term UI T030495
Date05/21/1980
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Personality Disorders, Passive Aggressive
Term UI T030496
Date05/21/1980
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Personality Disorder, Passive-Aggressive
Term UI T030497
Date05/21/1980
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Negativistic Personality Disorder
Term UI T030499
Date03/19/1997
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1998)

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