Three Main Types of Communicator

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The passive communicators are “the style in which individuals have developed a pattern of avoiding expressing their opinions or feelings, protecting their rights, and identifying and meeting their needs” (Benedict, 2005). They are more concern about others than oneself. In another word, a passive communicator is possibly to give up his or her rights when bullied. They do not know how to expressing their needs or feelings. Often time they just put themselves down and they do not value themselves. What you can see from a passive communicator is they have small posture such as they will hunch when they feel nervous. Furthermore when communicating with others they just have little eye contact and their voices are soft, small, and hesitant. What you will hear from passive communicators are “I’m sorry”; “Sorry for …”; “It’s my entire fault” and so on. These are the apologetic words. And there are many uncertainty when communicate with other, such as “possibly”; “maybe”; “perhaps”; “ if possible” and “ not sure”. They bring themselves down beside other people by saying the phrases such as “I have never done this before”; “I am still new to this and not very good at it”; “You obviously know more about this than I do”; “ It’s my mistake really” and so on. Most likely they expect permission from other people. For example, “Can I leave my bag here?”; “Do you mind if I go ahead?” and “Is this OK with you?” They often cease to consider their own needs. For example, “I don’t really need this continent anyway now that it's been attacked”. By doing all those actions and saying all those words it will lead to the result: not respond to the hurtful situations, allow problems to continue, explosive outburst when can not take any more and then feel guilty and confused so go back to being passive. The example of a passive communicator from the media and society would be Michael Jackson.

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