Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder is a pervasive pattern of
negativistic attitudes and passive resistance to demands for adequate
performance, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of
contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:
- passively resists fulfilling routine social and occupational tasks;
- complains of being misunderstood and unappreciated by others;
- is sullen and argumentative;
- unreasonably criticizes and scorns authority;
- expresses envy and resentment toward those apparently more fortunate;
- voices exaggerated and persistent complaints of personal misfortune;
- alternates between hostile defiance and contrition.