Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder

**Definition:** 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)

**Tree numbers:** - F03.675.625

**Synonyms:** - Passive-Aggressive Personality - Passive Aggressive Personality Disorders - Personality Disorders, Passive Aggressive - Personality Disorder, Passive-Aggressive - Negativistic Personality Disorder