AGGRESSION GENERAL COMMENTS AND TYPES OF AGGRESSION ASSAULT

AGGRESSION GENERAL COMMENTS AND TYPES OF AGGRESSION

ASSAULT PHYSICAL VIOLENCE AGAINST OTHERS. l GETTING INTO FIGHTS WITH PEOPLE BUT NOT DESTROYING OBJECTS l

INDIRECT AGGRESSION l BOTH ROUNDABOUT AND UNDIRECTED AGGRESSION. ROUNDABOUT BEHAVIOR LIKE MALICIOUS GOSSIP OR PRACTICAL JOKES IS INDIRECT IN THE SENSE THAT THE HATED PERSON IS NOT ATTACKED DIRECTLY BUT BY DEVIOUS MEANS

UNDIRECTED AGGRESSION l THIS IS A FORM OF INDIRECT AGGRESSION AND INCLUDES SUCH THINGS AS TEMPER TANTRUMS, SLAMMING DOORS, A DISCHARGE OF NEGATIVE AGGRESSION AGAINDT NO ONE IN PARTICULAR.

IRRITABILITY A READINESS TO EXPLODE AT THE SLIGHTEST PROVOVATION l QUICK TEMPER, GROUCHINESS, EXASPERATION AND RUDENESS l

NEGATIVISM OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOUR USUALLY DIRECTED AGAINST AUTHORITY. REFUSAL TO COOPERATIVE. l CAN VARY FROM PASSIVE NON COMPLIANCE TO OPEN REBELLION AGAINST RULES AND CONVENTION l

RESENTMENT JEALOUSY AND HATRED OF OTHERS l A FEELING OF ANGER AT THE WORLD OVER REAL OR IMAGINED MISTREATMENT l

SUSPICION PROJECTION OF HOSTILITY ON TO OTHERS. l VARIES FROM MERELY BEING DIDTRUSTFUL AND WARY OF PEOPLE TO BELIEFS THAT OTHERS ARE BEING DEROGATORY OR ARE PLANNING HARM. l

VERBAL AGGRESSION NEGATIVE AFFECT EXPRESSED IN BOTH THE STYLE AND CONTENT OF SPEECH. STYLE INDICATES ARGUING, SHOUTING AND SCREAMING. l CONTENT INCLUDES THREATS, CURSES AND BEING OVER CRITICAL l

BOTTLED UP AGGRESSION l WE KEEP NOT SAYING WHAT WE THINK. WE DON’T EXPRESS IT. WHEN PEOPLE TALE ADVANTAGE OF US WE SMILE AND COMPLY, BUT WE ARE BUILDING IT UP. . FILLING UP A BOTTLE WITH OUR ANGER

ONE DAY IT EXPLODES WE LET RIP AT EVERYONE. l THEY DON’T EVEN RECOGNIZE US l WE LET IT ALL OUT…AT ONE TIME l

THE TIE UP BETWEEN AGGRESSION AND TENSION l TENSION CAN OFTEN LEAD TO OR BE MISTAKEN FOR AGGRESSION

RESENTMENT DOES FAR MORE HARM TO THE VESSEL IN WHICH IT IS STORED l THN THE VESSEL OVER WHICH IT IS POURED l