Maladjustment refers to a condition where someone is unable to fit into or cope with their environment in a healthy or appropriate way. It means facing difficulties in adapting to the demands and expectations of the world around them.
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Research has indicated that post-divorce parental conflict is the strongest predictor
of maladjustment of children.
Therefore, early father involvement has an important protective role against both later
psychological maladjustment in children where parents have separated, and against adult psychological distress in women.
Maternal perceptions of
child maladjustment as a function of the combined influence of child behavior and maternal depression
Family resources as resistance factors for psychological
maladjustment in chronically ill and handicapped children
Emotional expressiveness during peer conflicts: A predictor of
social maladjustment among high - risk preschoolers
In a prospective longitudinal study of 354 parents and their first - born infants the association between parental psychopathology and risk
for maladjustment in the offspring was investigated.
Two cross-sectional studies showed that adolescents with a depressed parent suffered from
psychosocial maladjustment [38] and experienced a significantly higher rate of affective disorder than adolescents of nonaffective psychiatric control parents [39].
Particularly, conflict within the marital dyad has been associated
with maladjustment among adolescents, although studies have rarely focused on disordered eating as a possible negative outcome.
Thus, childhood aggression is best understood as a risk factor for
later maladjustment as it is correlated with many adverse outcomes in adolescence, including conduct problems, substance use, poor educational attainment, and delinquency (Hinshaw et al. 1993; Nagin and Tremblay 1999; Olweus 1979).
Many educators interpret the term social
maladjustment as referring to students with conduct disorders or those youth who have been adjudicated for rule violations (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).
At the same time, certain types of racial socialization messages may also generate an increased susceptibility to psychological
maladjustment among African American adolescents.
Some studies in samples of children with externalizing behavior or ADHD have found that having at least one good friend buffers the negative effects of peer rejection
on maladjustment [34, 35] and receipt of victimization [36].
The use of such maladaptive strategies has been related to emotional and behavioral maladjustment [10].
Within the control series, the mental health of women with
marital maladjustment was significantly worse than that of those in good marriages.
Differentiate social
maladjustment from emotional disturbance (includes clear coverage of the exclusionary clause)
Research has provided support for the role of disorganized attachment, both as a sequela of traumatic experiences and as a risk factor for
subsequent maladjustment.
The more the environment changes from that in which a species has evolved, the more the health and behavior of that species will
show maladjustment.
In addition, hypothesized shame linkages with
interpersonal maladjustment failed to materialize in the full sample, but in women, TOSCA Shame scores did, as expected, correlate positively with interpersonal sensitivity, interpersonal ambiguity, and aggression.
In addition, secure attachment only to one's mother and not to one's father was a protective factor
against maladjustment, while secure attachment to father alone was not.
On the other hand, some studies show that continued contact with the father is associated with
greater maladjustment in the children.
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It is thought that peer problems incrementally contribute to emotional and behavioral
maladjustment by (a) increasing children's loneliness, which contributes to depression and anxiety [31]; (b) leading children to dislike school because they lack good social ties in that setting, which hampers academic learning [29] and encourages delinquency [32]; and (c) depriving children of valuable opportunities to develop or practice social skills [33].
At any stage of development, man as a person in community and also the community of persons who are moving towards «civilization», may be deflected from following the main «aim», and hence may become either a backwater in the ongoing movement or be victims of
maladjustment so serious that damage is done not only to the whole dynamic process but also to the smaller organisms or societies, including man himself as such an organic entity.
Environmental therapists have a concept of
maladjustment which emphasises the environmental causes of the disturbance.
In this three - case series, all four participants reported
severe maladjustment at baseline and achieved remission by the end of treatment.
People who have difficulties getting satisfying relationships within their social network are more likely to
experience maladjustments like loneliness.
Marital conflict, parent — child relations, and
youth maladjustment: A longitudinal investigation of spillover effects
One mediating factor between maternal disorder and
infant maladjustment was found in disturbed mother - infant interaction.
Social problems can arise from
individual maladjustments, and the amount of mental stress and psychological illness in itself constitutes a social problem.
Much has been published on the continuity of homotypic disorders and
maladjustment across generations.
Problematic peer relations are associated with both concurrent and
future maladjustment of children, and hence warrant serious attention from parents and professionals working with children.
It is customary nowadays to look upon evil as either the absence of good through ignorance or fear, or else as something which manifests itself
through maladjustment of personality.
Further, the doctrine that evil has its source in
specifiable maladjustments or difficulties inherited from the past supported the belief that these causes could be removed, and the belief that the course of evolutionary development would progressively leave the sources of difficulty far enough behind so that their influence would be nullified.
Although, as we noted, naturalism and humanism tend to think of sin as an outmoded concept and talk instead
about maladjustment, insecurity, neurosis, or antisocial conduct, the term remains in the diction of Christians.
Phrases with «maladjustment»