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Some individuals will share negativistic thoughts freely, and family members may be aware of them.

"Most of the patients showed a sullen, slight aggressive, or negativistic behavior," according to the book.

Evidence of persistent irrational beliefs or negativistic thinking regarding the diagnosis.

"This is 'negativistic thinking' which we Kind Folk refuse to recognize.

As problems accumulate, a negativistic self-view becomes established and a vicious circle of failure is set up.

Passive-aggressive (negativistic) personality disorder - is a pattern of negative attitudes and passive resistance in interpersonal situations.

Both approaches are relatively brief and focus on reversing the negativistic thoughts and self-defeating behavior characteristic of depression.

Ill-humored depressive, including negativistic (passive-aggressive) features.

I remembered that she was from Earth, with its foolish, irrational negativistic conditionings, largely a heritage from the teachings of celibate lunatics.

Instead of wasting its energies in denunciations of The Machine or in negativistic criticism of the space program, it should formulate a set of positive technological goals for the future.

The examining board reported that Walker was agitated by fear of his impending death and was "negativistic, mute, fearful, and unresponsive and possibly reacting to hallucinations," frequently lapsing into semi-unconsciousness.

In psychology, passive-aggressive behavior is characterised by a habitual pattern of passive resistance to expected work requirements, opposition, stubbornness, and negativistic attitudes in response to requirements for normal performance levels expected of others.

"redefine ODD by emphasizing a 'persistent pattern of angry and irritable mood along with vindictive behavior,' rather than DSM-IV's focus exclusively on 'negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior.'

They were dropped in the DSM-IV, though a proposed 'depressive personality disorder' was added; in addition, the official diagnosis of passive-aggressive personality disorder was dropped, tentatively renamed 'negativistic personality disorder.'

"His attitude is negativistic," Mr. Primakov said of Mr. Butler, but he urged Iraq to work more constructively with the commission and said that monitoring of Iraqi weapons sites should continue even after the commission finished its work.

The first critique of this theory, put forth by Albert Cohen, addressed the fact that there is an ample amount of crime/delinquent behavior that is "non-utilitarian, malicious, and negativistic" (O'Grady, 2011), which highlights that not all crimes are explicable using Merton's theory.