Meaning of underassertively | Babel Free

Definitions

In an underassertive manner.

Examples

“Some of the most difficult situations for underassertive people involve requests and compliments: — making a request — refusing a request — giving a compliment — accepting a compliment. People who act underassertively may have difficulty asking others for what they want,”

“Rather, like the medical institutions, and like many American parents around him, he was cautiously — "underassertively," he often says — feeling his way toward alternatives to the old-fashioned techniques.”

“The assertiveness training sessions involved role-playing in a given situation in three ways, viz., underassertively (passively), overassertively (aggressively), and assertively.”

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