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Definition of Maladaptation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maladaptation
Literary usage of Maladaptation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1905)
"Con- of the fall. flict is only maladaptation, but there is maladaptation everywhere.
If we assume, then, what the doctrine of creation requires, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... the problems of the idiot and imbecile; the backward child in the school; and
the innumerable problems of social maladaptation which have their roots in ..."
3. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"Adaptation and maladaptation are the key words of our own branch of practical or
... That penalty is the ease of its maladjustment and maladaptation. ..."
4. Assessing Psychopathology and Behavior Problems in Persons With Mental (1994)
"... consistently were rated significantly lower on Social maladaptation (ie, as
having more problems), and usually lower on Personal maladaptation factors. ..."
5. Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by John Dewey, Harold Chapman Brown, George Herbert Mead, Boyd Henry Bode, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts, Horace Meyer Kallen, Addison Webster Moore (1917)
"... the response to " sharp " is a nascent or incipient form of a response which
at the time of its first occurrence was the expression of a maladaptation. ..."
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