What is a passive communication style? Experts explain how to be more assertive about expressing your needs and opinions with others.

Many of the questions and comments I receive from women are around understanding the difference between passive, aggressive, and assertive behavior.

Below, I provide an example of how aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive communication styles play out in a commonplace situation between a husband and a wife: ...

In fact, there are four different styles of communication — passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive. If you often feel that communication is a problem for you, you might be using ...

There are four main styles of communication, passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive. Dr. Karin Ryan, a licensed psychologist with Nystrom & Associates explains the four steps to ...

Assertiveness can help you control stress and anger and improve coping skills. Recognize and learn assertive behavior and communication.

Avoidance, lateness, and sarcasm can all be examples of passive-aggressive behavior and cause a lot of harm to some people. Learn more.

There are four types of communication styles: passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive. Which one are you? Take the following quiz to find out. __I feel anxious, ignored, helpless ...

One common model used to describe communication styles defines three basic styles: aggressive, passive and assertive.