In other cases, unemployed job seekers have reported verbal rejections after a recruiter or employer learned they were not currently working.
Across a number of accounts, HIV disclosure by either partner initiated emotional reactions and defensive rationalisations from partners involving blame, verbal hostility, rejection and potential violence.
Within the family there can be rejection, verbal and physical abuse, and then also at street level, in the media and in the workplace.
Your reaction could be condemnation or rejection, verbal or even physical abuse -- and they risked that to tell you the truth about who they are.
Many discussed their fear of rejection, verbal abuse, or physical violence.
The job is repetitive and can be emotionally taxing, as callers absorb verbal abuse while also facing rejection (the rejection rate at that call center was about 93 percent).
Five variables — Serious neglect, Exposure to physical violence, Witnessing domestic violence, Exposure to emotional abuse (threats, hostility, rejection, harsh verbal punishment), and Witnessing emotional abuse towards other family members — all had a significant associations with at least one diagnostic group.
However, abusive treatment that does not involve any physical transgression by a caregiver but is characterized instead by acts such as verbal hostility, taunting, belittling, rejection as well as emotionally neglectful parenting that is unavailable, detached, avoidant and unresponsive to the child's needs and desires [ 6] is also maltreatment.
These can include instances of bullying, rejection, neglect, ridicule, verbal abuse, alarm etc.
