Quick Quiz

Gauge Your Hidden Anger

• Was anger prohibited in your home as a child?
• Do you smile when you're truly frustrated?
• Are you ever intentionally slow performing a request?
• When afraid to share opinions, do you later resent things not going your way?
• Do you often feel that problems you encounter are someone else's fault?
• Does the fear of rejection prevent you from taking action?
• Do you yearn for more freedom in a relationship but at the same time wish to be close?

If these questions intrigued you, there are plenty more in Overcoming Passive Aggression: How to Stop Hidden Anger from Spoiling Your Relationships, Career and Happiness.

Touch your childhood memories of anger and how it was - or was not - handled properly. Very often, if you have collected passive-aggressive people in your lives you may identify with a people-pleasing component in your own personality. Sometimes that's worked well for you. Other times, it has you feeling overwhelmed and frazzled.

Reading this book, you will figure out how you fall into one of the four types of families where anger exists. Most every family has met its share of frustrations cycling through some of these types of family problems. Knowing how to self-correct or get professional help so that you don't stay stuck makes the difference between functional and dysfunctional.

See if you have experienced the ten traits of the angry child or the angry adult, and find out how in- or out-of-sync you are with your mate and everyone else around you. Handy charts throughout the book help you to visually see what happens in terms of needs, fears, avoidances and behaviors.

Take another quiz further into the book to assess your on-the-job or in-the-classroom style. Hint: It will reveal just how indirect or open and assertive you really are!

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Kindly consider posting a favorable review on a bookstore website and/or letting others know of this Internet site, this book Overcoming Passive-Aggression or our first book The Angry Child. Ms. Oberlin also wrote Surviving Separation & Divorce. You will find opportunities to post throughout this website as well as the quiz you may wish to share with others.