Even though Susie volunteers to work on committees on does a lot of the work on her own, she feels so misused and resentful that she criticizes committee members behind their backs. Susie's behavior would be classified as

a) assertive.
b) passive.
c) aggressive.
d) assertive-aggressive.
e) passive-aggressive.


ANS: e

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