A submissive personality is someone who willingly submits to the authority of someone else. They have a service-oriented mindset and find peace in taking instructions from those he or she looks up to. This can be at home, at workplace, with friends or in community relationships.
What does it mean if you are a submissive person?
To be submissive is to obey or yield to someone else. When you are submissive, you submit to someone else's will, which literally, you put your own desires lower than theirs. You can see this in the Latin root of submit, submittere, which is formed by sub- "under" + mittere "send, put."
What causes submissive behavior?
The core assumption of submissive behavior is that you are inferior to others in some way, and hence that other people have greater rights and more valid truths than you. In Transactional Analysis, the adaptive child may become submissive when coping with the controlling parent.
What is an example of submissive behavior?
Some other examples of submissive behaviors would be hiding the thumbs while someone's hands are in their pockets, turtling as stated above in the previous example, and one of the best explanations that I can give would be any behavior that attempts to “hide” or reduce the visual footprint of the subject.
How is submissive Behaviour displayed?
submissive (or passive) behavior means shying away from saying what you really mean and not seeking to achieve your needs, particularly when someone else has conflicting needs. A submissive person is a shrinking violet, avoiding upsetting others either because they fear them or they fear to hurt their feelings.
What situations make you submissive?
- Low self-esteem.
- Negative self talk.
- Self doubt.
- Feelings of worthlessness.
- Feelings of hopelessness.
- Lack of communication.
- Isolating from others.