The world offers all of us many opportunities to practice defeating our
defensiveness.
Defensiveness makes the problem worse by making it more personal.
2013) defines humility as a virtue characterized by the down-regulation of egoistic motives in favor of other-orientedness, as well as an accurate view of oneself Down-regulating egoistic motives should include forgoing
defensiveness when confronted about one's beliefs, and being more other-oriented should translate to being less antagonistic toward the views of others that run counter to one's own views or beliefs.
In an effort to further understand the relationships between religious
defensiveness and the other variables measured in this study, multiple regression analyses were performed.
Though Liverpool has agreed a plan in response to our report and the district auditor's report there's a sense that words may not turn into action because of some of the
defensiveness of their response.
The task of discriminating between those female students with alcohol use problems and those whose use is benign may be challenging, however, because denial and
defensiveness are defining characteristics of substance use disorders (Horrigan & Piazza, 1999; Piazza, Martin, & Dildine, 2000).
Due to the increased incidence of oral
defensiveness in children with an ASD, plaque accumulation was high, at 85% for all groups studied.
In addition, oral
defensiveness was scored using an 8-point ordinal scale that identified the level of cooperation exhibited during the oral assessment.
Evidence of acceptance of the ACOA phenomenon include specific approaches to the treatment of ACOA characteristics (Lewchanin & Sweeney, 1997; Mahon & Kempler, 1995) designed to address issues such as
defensiveness, substance abuse, and codependence.
Each suggestion you make is met with
defensiveness and a closed mind.
At the heart of this book is a powerful but more than slightly simplistic concept: companies that want to grow need to climb on a "blue train" of empowerment, enthusiasm and teamwork, and reject a "red train" of
defensiveness, defeatism and stagnation.
It is argued in this paper that the difficulties associated with oral critiques can be overcome by using communication messages that are intended to reduce
defensiveness and create supportiveness.
When you fail to do this, you commonly provoke
defensiveness.
isolates the factors that tend to keep people from listening, and how to identify one's own tendencies to tune out what others are saying--from the "Me Too" syndrome that tends to tune out the speaker and refocus the conversation on the self, to learning how to be heard, to how counterproductive
defensiveness can be (defending oneself signals that the time of listening to the speaker's concerns have ended).
In cases where the fit is not developed, the dark elements of the role identified by Levinson years ago are likely to emerge: unhealthy rivalries,
defensiveness, over-control, rigidity, misconceptions and doubt.
