"underassertive" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2011, H. B. Jr. London, Neil B. Wiseman, Married to a Pastor",
          "text": "This problem multiplies even more as Hart and Blackmon report: “Clinical experience shows that underassertive and excessively overassertive ministers are much more likely to suffer from depression, burnout, helplessness and especially problems with anger and resentment.\"",
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          "ref": "2013, Leigh Thompson, Richard Templar, Choose Your Own Outcome!",
          "text": "I once heard someone offer an underassertive friend a favor and the friend said no in such a roundabout fashion that the person actually thought she'd said yes, and did it anyway.",
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          "text": "Some people are underassertive in almost every kind of social situation, whereas others behave overassertively in social encounters.",
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        "Insufficiently assertive."
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