Assertiveness is considered to be the ideal style of communicating.

It is about
giving equal importance to and
being able to finely balance between the goals and the relationships. It involve
s being able to say no effectively,
being able to express thoughts, feeling, opinions freely. Assertiveness is also
about asking for help or apologizing
without feeling belittled. In short it is about respect toward self as well as o
thers. Aggressiveness is giving more
importance to your goals than to your relationships. At times lack of respect fo
r others, their thoughts, feelings,
opinions, values etc. It can also be seen nonverbal behaviors. Aggressiveness is
expressed either directly or
passively. Passive aggression includes gossiping, taunting, cracking a mean joke
etc. Submissiveness is giving
more importance to one's relationship with others at the cost of one's goals. Di
fficulty saying no, letting the other
make a decision not being able to make a request are typical observations with s
ubmissive behavior
(wiki.answers.com, 2013).
Assertive skills help to define the boundary between the need to express one?s p
ersonal needs authentically, and
the desire to meet another?s needs empathically a tension that must be balanced
for counselors to live fully and
effectively. Aggression refers to a loose cluster of actions and motive around t
he theme of intent by one individual
to hurt or control another. The antecedents of aggressive behavior in children a
nd the relationship between
aggression and learning are not very clear. It seems that extremes of parental b
ehavior are most likely to produce
this behavioral motive (Boocock, 1980: 76).
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