Being Passively Assertive is communicating my choice to another, as my choice. I am asserting my choice in a passive way that is both non-active and non-aggressive.
When I am being passively assertive, I am gently explaining my choice to someone else with a confident and clear demeanour that is without aggression.
Being passively aggressive is resisting someone else’s choice for me in a hostile way.
Being aggressively assertive is forcing my choice or my opinions and beliefs on to someone else in a hostile and threatening way.
Being actively assertive is physically doing what I have chosen as my choice, which may or may not be carried out with sensitivity to others. Without sensitivity to others my assertiveness may be perceived as active aggression instead.
Passively Asserting my beliefs and my choices is not imposing them on other people. It is simply asserting them as my choice.
Imposing my choices on others may or may not require me to be aggressive depending on whether others are tolerant or intolerant of my demands.
Imposing my choices on others is always an imposition.
Asserting my authority to choose is always my prerogative.