Sentence examples for covert aggression from inspiring English sources
His affair with Edith is partly a campaign of covert aggression against Hank, and also against Terry, whose disorderly housekeeping and emotional volatility stand in vivid contrast to Edith's cool, genteel melancholy.
"Russia's contempt for humanitarian laws and disregard for the system of rules in place since the second world war is a profound threat to global security, and its level of covert aggression towards the UK is arguably already akin to the cold war era.
"It's not a confrontation between Ukrainians, but covert and now no longer covert aggression by the Russian Federation against our country," he added.
This was done for all four questions of aggression (physical, verbal, relational, covert aggression) separately.
8 Understanding the development of covert aggression in childhood is important for supporting the development of prosocial behaviour.
This paper reviews relevant literature and outlines a research project that aims to develop a self-report instrument that effectively measures covert aggression and bullying.
The effect size of stimulants on overt and covert aggression-related behavior in ADHD children are 0.84 and 0.69, respectively.
Since overt physical aggression is discouraged amongst girls [ 38], it is possible that they respond to inconsistent parenting with a covert aggressive style that is more socially acceptable.
"Antisocial behavior" designates an intentional disrespect for implicit or explicit social norms of everyday life, manifested as covert or relational aggression, overt verbal aggression and, in extreme cases, violent physical aggression (Burt et al. 2011; Burt and Donnellan 2009; Verona et al. 2008).
Incivility, as a covert form of aggression, demarcates from other forms of overt workplace aggression in that it can be ambiguous and of lower intensity and does not necessarily need to be intended to harm [ 2].
Thus, it is interesting to include organizational factors from the model in the investigation of a covert form of aggression such as workplace incivility.
